Food
what, and how, eat PuffinsPuffin eat mainly fish. Those fish that swim near the surface or at great depths it is not. Although Puffin able to dive well, but does not like to get down too deep, to a maximum of 15 meters below the surface of the water, but among birds, and so is a pretty big number. Puffin feed predominantly young - when you catch one of their draft numbers immediately. Puffin feed on in winter, probably because it has been too thoroughly investigated, more than the amount of shellfish in the summer, although they remain the basis for food fish. We know they like most - is sprat, herring, mackerel, (for example, Pollack, czarina, witling, and cod). Sometimes the temptation to catch ostracizes. Puffin eat only small, but flying in a number of schooling, the fish. This is because they themselves are not too great - for aquatic birds are relatively small. They have such capacity; the how, for example, cormorants, so they have to make do young and adult fish. Once reported, that the puffin eat sand eel - to fish with a length of 20-21 centimeters. Puffin not pays too much attention to the length of achievements, but above all, on its thickness - it is established that they are not able to swallow the fish with a thickness greater than 2.3 centimeters.