Atlantic puffins spend most of their lives at sea—either flying over the surf as they migrate and search for fishing spots, or diving into the water to gobble up fish. But in spring and summer they come ashore to nest, meet up with their mates, and with any luck, raise a chick or two. Puffins can dig their own burrows, as they prefer to build nests underground atop seaside cliffs. But if there are rabbit warrens around, the puffins have no problem moving into empty burrows. They’re not even above kicking a rabbit out to take over.
The puffin-rabbit connection
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Social climbing
-
The parenting of a piping plover
-
A field of English lavender
-
International Surfing Day
-
Three cheers for polar bears!
-
Necropolis of Dargavs
-
Glowworm caves in Australia
-
Red-leaf hunting in Japan
-
Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
-
Red deer stag in Glen Affric, Scottish Highlands
-
Reflecting on one of the world s strangest rivers
-
Umschreibung by Olafur Eliasson in Munich
-
A fair that s star-studded
-
International Women s Day
-
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Hunan Province, China
-
Jasper Dark Sky Festival
-
Hippo family in Chobe National Park, Botswana
-
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day
-
Virgin Islands National Park established
-
Green fields of grain
-
Hemingway’s Keys
-
Bobbio, Italy
-
Patriot Day
-
European beech forest, Belgium
-
Prasat Phanom Rung temple ruins, Thailand
-
It’s Penguin Awareness Day
-
Wildebeests in Maasai Mara, Kenya
-
Penn Station
-
A silent witness to history
-
Talk like a pirate—or walk the plank