Talk:Puffin

message: I added some information I found about the puffin, and their mating habits.  It seemed important, since it seems so different from the way other animals mate.
I think it would be interesting if there are any ornithologists, or puffin experts, who can expand upon what I have added.  I included my source (even though there were many web sites I found this information on).
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thread_title: Mating

message: I'm interested to know if people ever domesticate puffins.  I suppose their nesting and feeding patterns would probably make it unfeasible.... Too bad.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.172.9 (talk) 16:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Domestication?

message: Haha! what are they, Campbells soups??? (Paragraph 2 Line 1)
many people think that the puffin looks like a penguin and then gets them confused for one dont be the beak clearly distinguishes them!
How big are they?
210.50.228.4 03:33, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not very - around a foot. 92.25.241.38 (talk) 06:18, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Chunky Birds???

message: I would very much have like more (much more) discussion on the analogies or relationship between (Arctic) puffins and (Antarctic) penguins.  It appears that two distinct species of seabird developed pretty much the same way on opposite sides of the globe, and I think that is very revealing about the mechanisms of evolution.  Both species have a black back and white chest, so that, while swimming for fish, they cannot be seen from above by predator birds nor from below by fish.
Sussmanbern (talk) 20:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evolutionary examples 

message: Nominated February 4 2009;
Support:
# Sabine's Sunbird  talk 08:32, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: And I live on one of the Puffin Islands! Grantus4504 (talk) 07:58, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Puffin]] is bird collab for April 2009

message: Before we can start we need to decide whether this article is about the puffin genus or the the genus plus the Rhinoceros Auklet (RHAU). The article is a bit all over the place at the moment, it starts by saying four species, then specifies the genus Fratercula, then describes them as having bright bills (the RHAUs don't) then mentions that they are sometimes inluded in the genus, then forgets about them in the table. I think we should treat the RHAU as a separate genus for now and keep this article about the genus Fratercula, while of course mentioning the close relations between the two genera and the sometimes included hereness. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 23:17, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've followed the Fratercula line and tried to standardise around the three species. jimfbleak (talk) 07:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Rhinoceros auklet stuff is interesting, but if there is no consensus and most authorities still call it an auklet, then it looks pretty weird calling this page '3 puffins and an auklet..' You never know what consensus will be in the future but until then...Casliber (talk · contribs) 07:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Three puffins and an auklet sounds either like the start of a joke or an obscure Seatle indie rock band! Anyway, I'll be getting some info from the library on these guys soon. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 07:45, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Gaston & Jones (1997) do not consider tribes in their descriptions. Friesen et. al. (1996) has Cerorhinca and Fratercula as members of tribe Fraterculini. Do we need pages for tribes, or redirects to Auk? Grantus4504 (talk) 09:32, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah. I think a redirect to Auk for the time being. In an ideal world, the term puffin (I guess) would sit nicely on the stronger and more well defined branch/clade, whichever that was out of the genus or tribe....Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:28, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not aware that there is any debate.  Rhino's place as sister taxon to the other 3 puffins is well-accepted.  There was even a proposal before the AOU to rename it Rhinoceros Puffin. Regardless of the outcome of that proposal, the species is still a "basal puffin".  I think it deserves a place on this page. Natureguy1980 (talk) 16:41, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pesky rhinos

message: Should Faroese puffin be merged here? Currently, at least, it is rather what you would expect from a "ralationships with humans" section than an article on a puffins as food in the Faroes. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 18:47, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: wrong article, it should be merged with Atlantic Puffin, no other species is involved Jimfbleak -  talk to me? 19:16, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, any merge should be to Atlantic Puffin.  Some history - the Faroese puffin article really started as a culinary article (main project involved should have been WP:FOOD) before I had anything to do with it.  I added most of the stuff on hunting / harvesting etc, and I guess this could be moved to Atlantic Puffin.  However, I think a purely culinary article could stand alone given that puffin has a high profile in traditional Faroese (and Icelandic) cuisine. Maias (talk) 23:36, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: Hi, in the upcoming weeks I will be adding specific details about the conservation status of the Tufted Puffins in the Pacific Northwest, specifically around the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State. This is my first time contributing to Wikipedia and this is a part of my quarter long case study for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington Bothell. Recycleplease (talk) 20:35, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New additions 

message: I have restored the information regarding the presence of Puffins on the Farne Islands and Coquet Island in Northumberland but removed the reference to the upcoming Puffin Festival.Sarahatamblenorthumberland (talk) 21:36, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related Places 

message: Please add that a grouping of Puffins as considered to be titled a Circus. 
Clucius3 (talk) 19:19, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 19:24, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 January 2015 

message: The text "Poop from puffins are accually very good for you to eat" appears all over the scientific classification box. I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to be there.
67.190.7.203 (talk) 22:30, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Question: Where in the article is this? I could not find it. Datbubblegumdoe[talk – contribs] 01:35, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

text: Not done: Closed, not seeing this on the article or in article history --allthefoxes (Talk)  03:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 January 2016 

message: Look at this cute photo of a puffin!!!:
Puffin  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loganslowik (talk • contribs) 17:01, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puffins are awesome! 

message: The iceandic puffins are decreasing. In 2010 there were about 100 at Hjörleifshöfði on th south coast, a few years earlier 350.000 were counted.
The text mentions big nets for catching. In Iceland as well as the Faroes they use a small net (½-1 m across) on a pole 5-10 m long. On a windy day an experienced hunter can catch a puffin pr minute!
Best regards 
Steen Thomsen 
Brønshøj Danmark.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.215.210.23 (talk) 21:20, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decreasing in Iceland - the Net for catching 

message: The genus name Fratercula is interesting, peculiar, even bizarre. Frater is Latin for "brother"; no problem there.  -culus is the masculine form of a diminutive suffix (i.e., meaning "little"); the feminine and neuter forms end in -a and -um instead of -us. So fraterculus means "little brother". (Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary) 
But why fratercula instead of fraterculus? -cula is the feminine diminutive suffix, and it makes no sense here. Fratercula doesn't mean "little sister"; that would be sororcula. (Lewis and Short)
This would be worth mentioning and explaining, or if no explanation is available, to mention with that fact. --Thnidu (talk) 04:51, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The genus name 

message: It’s pretty important to mention how the puffin has grown to become a cultural symbol of Iceland in recent years  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.143.152 (talk) 19:34, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural symbol of Iceland? 

message: Add the word "are" between the words "there" and "no":
Although there no records from the Miocene in the Atlantic, a re-examination of the North Carolina material indicated that the diversity of puffins in the early Pliocene was as great in the Atlantic as it is in the Pacific today. 2601:19C:4280:2610:4169:F29:93B8:DFE0 (talk) 12:35, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Cannolis (talk) 13:38, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 July 2022 

message: Change "there" to "their"
Because of there striking appearance they are also referred to as "clowns of the sea" and "sea parrots". 2601:19C:4280:2610:4169:F29:93B8:DFE0 (talk) 12:36, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: . And thanks  Cannolis (talk) 13:38, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 July 2022 (2) 

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message: Can you link the subject "Miocene" to the existing Wikipedia site? 2A02:3032:1:96A6:15EE:52E6:298:D6AC (talk) 16:40, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: Already WP:LINKONCE. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 16:54, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  linking the subject Miocene to the existing Wikipedia page