Puffins!

To tie in with your Language Arts study of "Night of the Pufflings", we will spend some time researching puffins and pufflings using a mini webquest:

You will use the following links to find the answers to your questions:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/atlanticpuffin/



http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Puffinprintout.shtml


http://www.brucemcmillan.com/FRB_PuffinPage.html


You will answer the following questions:

Puffins!
Atlantic puffins are birds that live at _____ most of their lives.	Because of the size of their beaks, Atlantic puffins are sometimes called:
Puffins eat small fish, such as __________ and ______________.	Another nickname for puffins is:
Puffins flap their wings over _______ times a minute.	The Atlantic puffin is about ____ inches long.
Puffins often become mates for:	The Atlantic puffin weighs about_______.
Puffins nesting sites are often found on _____________________ Where the birds and their eggs are safe from predators.	The color of the bill of a puffin is _______, ________, and ___________.
Puffins line their nests with: ________________________ _______________________.	The color of the legs of a puffin are:
The breeding ground for about 60 percent of the world’s Atlantic puffins is:__________________	The main predator of puffins is: _______________________.
The scientific name of the puffin is: _____________ ______________________.	The parents will abandon the puffling, who will leave the nest after about a week to search for ____________.
The Atlantic Puffin may live to be more than ___ years old.	Atlantic puffling population is _____________
Puffins are the provincial birds of _________ and ________.	Their bodies, similar in shape to the Penguins, are wonderful for:
Both parents feed a puffling for about ___ Weeks.	Pufflings are true seabirds because they come ashore to _______ and then spend most of their lives in the___________.