puffin in a burrow

LIVE PUFFIN BURROW WEBCAM ON SEAL ISLAND

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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.

    To watch more live views of seabirds and coastal wildlife, visit: Live Seabird Webcams

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