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English name "
puffin" –
puffed in the
sense of
swollen – was
originally applied to the fatty,
salted meat of
young birds of the
unrelated Manx shearwater...
- name of this
species records a name shift:
Manx shearwaters were
called Manks puffins in the 17th century.
Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English...
- name
puffin –
puffed in the
sense of
swollen – was
originally applied to the fatty,
salted meat of
young birds of the
unrelated species, the
Manx shearwater...
- The
Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also
known as the
common puffin, is a
species of
seabird in the auk family. It is the only
puffin native to the...
- name
puffin –
puffed in the
sense of
swollen – was
originally applied to the fatty,
salted meat of
young birds of the
unrelated species, the
Manx shearwater...
-
headland of St. Finian's Bay.
Puffin Island holds important po****tions of
several seabird species,
including Atlantic puffins,
Manx shearwaters and European...
- wildlife:
around half the world's po****tion of
Manx shearwaters nest on the island, the
Atlantic puffin colony is the
largest in
southern Britain, and...
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loanword based on the
English "
puffin" and its variants, that
referred to the
cured carc**** of the fat
nestling of the
Manx shearwater, a
former delicacy...
- Wales. The
island was once the home of
puffins and
Manx shearwater. A
guide book in the 1890s
referred to the
puffins as “Welsh parrots”. In 1924
Welsh writer...
- (Uria aalge),
razorbill (Alca torda) and
Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) (with 4,000 or more
puffins on
Great Skellig alone). Red-billed
chough (Pyrrhocorax...
