where are puffins from
puffins on the westman islands on the westman islands which hold about half of all icelandic puffins the puffins are both harvested and rescued puffins have been a vital source of food through the centuries for icelanders in the islands however they are harvested sustainablyceland is home to one of the world s largest colonies of puffins over half of the world s population of the atlantic puffin breeds in iceland somewhere between 3 4 million pairs each year