PUFFIN BURROW, SEAL ISLAND, LIVE WEBCAM

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Location: Seal Island, Maine, USA
Source: www.explore.org
Info: Live puffin burrow webcam on Seal Island in Maine, United States. Puffins make burrows using their bills and feet and prefer to be between rocks on steep cliffs in order to avade predators. More than 100 pairs of Atlantic puffins nest on Seal Island. Atlantic Puffins come ashore to breed around late April.

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More info: Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge is a 65 acre island 21 miles off the coast of Rockland, Maine. Seal Island offers prime seabird nesting sites for the puffins, with boulder fields and ledges. The puffins generally breed in June and July.

Fascinating video exploring why Maine birding is different:

Video courtesy of Bob Duchesne

Additional Information :

Maine Birding Trail - Puffins - mainebirdingtrail.com

Atlantic Puffin - Audubon - .audubon.org

Know your Puffins - Smithsonian Ocean - ocean.si.edu

Animal Diversity Web - animaldiversity.org