These fish are brought to the fluffy little Puffins in their snug nests inside of a burrow or under a slab of rock. The babies are called “Pufflings.”
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Puffling
//ˈpʌflɪŋ//
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Icelandic
1 entries- lundapysja noun (young puffin)
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Visit Iceland this August and you could help to rescue pufflings – baby puffins – who get confused by town street lights and crash into towns when leaving their burrows to fly over the Atlantic for the first time.
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Whee-er-er, whee-er-er! the puffling cries because he is hungry. Mama puffin arrives and lays her mouthful of live fish close to the front of the burrow.
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When they're old enough the young puffins, or pufflings as they're called, have to fly off to find food.
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