Atlantic puffin on an Icelandic clifftop — orange beak and vivid markings against a deep blue summer sky
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Iceland Postcard — Atlantic Puffin

Iceland is home to more than half the world's Atlantic puffin population. This is one of them, photographed on a clifftop against a blue Icelandic sky.

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Puffins arrive in Iceland in April or May, returning to the same clifftop burrows they used the year before. They spend the winter far out at sea, then come back to land to breed — tens of millions of them, in colonies along Iceland's coasts. The largest colony in the world is on the Westman Islands, but puffins are visible from many points around the island.

Up close, a puffin is surprisingly small — not much bigger than a pigeon — and remarkably tolerant of people. Their orange beaks are used to carry several small fish at once, held crosswise. In flight they look frantic, beating their small wings furiously. At rest, like this, they look as if they have nowhere else they'd rather be. Posted from Iceland with a genuine Icelandic stamp.

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