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:
-
Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel in Arkansas
-
Tortula moss, Netherlands
-
Aw shucks, it’s oyster season in Galway
-
Nature Photography Day
-
Golden larches and Prusik Peak, the Enchantments, Washington
-
Let’s talk fossils
-
Coral Reef Awareness Week
-
A path into history
-
The Wave at Coyote Buttes
-
Hawai i Volcanoes National Park at 106
-
It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball
-
New York City Marathon
-
Papa was a flightless bird
-
A bison preserve
-
Windmills in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands
-
Let’s have a ball
-
Composite of photographs from the Apollo 15 mission
-
Four little birds sitting in a tree…
-
Autumn in the Prosecco Hills
-
A theatrical dream
-
A fair that s star-studded
-
International Day of the World s Indigenous Peoples
-
Flowers by the sea
-
Armbrug bridge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
-
Best fronds forever
-
Who s hiding in the kelp?
-
Spring comes to the Palouse
-
Bonifacio on the island of Corsica, France
-
Big Bend National Park turns 78
-
Casting a vote for women s history
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

