Top 7 Adorable Facts About Puffins - Page 3 of 9

These birds form lifelong relationships

The Atlantic puffins build some sort of tunnel to a nest that is lined with materials such as leaves or grass. Other species usually find a hole in a cliff or rocks along the coasts.

Both the male and female take good care of the nest and incubate the single egg laid produced by the female. Both parents also feed the chick until it’s strong enough to go out into the ocean where it spends the first few years of its life. They stay there until they reach maturity, which is around 3 to 5 years old (in captivity they can start breeding as early as 3 years old), and finally, they go on land themselves to breed for the first time!