Papageientaucher

Puffins are known to many for their colored beak and their clown-like appearance. The pictures in this calendar show typical behavior patterns of these funny seabirds during the breeding season. The hallmark of the puffin is their colorful beak, which only has this distinctive coloration during the breeding season. Only at this time do the birds stay in their breeding ground, where they hatch an egg in caves dug in the ground. Their striking coloring and their clumsy and somewhat awkward-looking movements on land have something clown-like about them and make the animals a tourist attraction in their areas of distribution.