How to Use puffin in a Sentence

puffin

noun

• About two-thirds of the puffins fledged chicks last year, Lyons said.
  — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• At the puffin colony, the whish-whish sound of thousands of birds filled the air.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2019
• By now, the puffins had vacated the area, and gulls swarmed the sea caves.
  — Kayla Becker, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
• Whales, puffins, lynx and moose also find places to bed down for the night.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2019
• But the area is best known for the colorful-beaked puffins.
  — Julia Blakely, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
• Book a cruise on the harbor cruises or one to spot whales and puffins.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 18 May 2017
• On the rocky, windswept coast of Iceland, the puffins are returning.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2017
• Getting the puffin chicks to the island was no easy task.
  — Pamela Boykoff, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
• That would have given me more hope about the puffins’ long-term survival.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• Beaks on both puffins studied had the same orange glow.
  — Jamie Dunning, National Geographic, 27 Apr. 2018
• What’s a puffin to do with an itchy back and a short little beak? Grab a stick, a new study suggests.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2019
• Keep watch for whales or, often just as thrilling, puffins speeding by.
  — Jenna Schnuer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2018
• The spring also marks the start of the puffin season, with many of these adorable birds returning to the coastlines to breed.
  — James Barrett, Redbook, 14 Mar. 2023
• Foula is home to some of Britain’s highest cliffs, a large puffin colony, no shops and around 30 people.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• Guests can stay for the night, camp or try puffin at the restaurant of this quirky country hotel.
  — Katie Lockhart, CNN, 26 July 2022
• Tip: Look for puffins on steep, grassy cliffs from early-April through mid-August.
  — National Geographic, 21 June 2019
• That appears to be what has happened with puffins in the remote Pribolofs.
  — Paul Melovidov, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2016
• By mid-July of this year, the sand lance had disappeared and the puffins switched to haddock, hake and redfish.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• In 1977, a few days after the decoys were installed, the first puffin returned to the island.
  — Pamela Boykoff, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
• Photographers flock to the island for pictures of the puffins, who nest there each year.
  — Katherine Lam, Fox News, 31 July 2018
• Consider the evening excursion to Thulla Islet, home to colonies of puffins and seals.
  — Brigid Mander, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
• There are four species of puffin: the Atlantic, the horned, the tufted and the rhinoceros auklet.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
• As excellent swimmers, puffins spend most of their lives at sea.
  — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2017
• But no one protests when puffin is on the menu at the islands’ only Michelin-starred restaurant.
  — The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
• More than 20 bird species, including colonies of puffins, the sight of them waddling over the rocks makes for a delightful photo — live around the cliffs.
  — Shivani Vora, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• More than 20 bird species - including colonies of puffins, the sight of them waddling over the rocks makes for a delightful photo - live around the cliffs.
  — Shivani Vora, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• The puffins were laying eggs earlier in even-numbered years and later in odd years.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
• Ice isn't the only attraction on these boats: keep an eye out for whales and wildlife, puffins and porpoises, too.
  — Josh Niva, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
• Terns and puffins are expert samplers of juvenile herring, the little 1-year-old fish that will grow big enough to be caught by fishers in a couple of years.
  — Abby McBride, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• Pelicans and puffins grace other imprints of this company, and there was even a ptarmigan series of puzzle books in the 1940s.
  — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Aug 2024