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. A group of puffins is called a raft. When soil conditions are permit puffins can tunnel eight feet or more underground when excaviting a burrow. The most common puffin is the Atlantic puffin.