Its small waddling steps give it an awkward apperance. For forty days or so both puffins take turns keeping the egg warm, by tucking the egg under one wing and leaning against it. It is estimated that their are about six million pairs of puffins in the world. A puffin can live more than thirty years. The puffins cousin is the penguin.
Puffins are excellent swimmers and divers.
They live in holes that are in cliffs. Puffins nest in burrows. Puffins usually return to the same burrow every year with the same mate. They can fly about forty miles per hour. Their wings beat about three hundred to four hundred times a minute.