Tufted puffins (Lunda cirrhata) - Aborigines of the North Pacific, including the Far Eastern seas of Russia, and some waters of the Arctic Ocean. These sea birds, puffins migrate most of his life in the open ocean. However, for the breeding season each spring for four months, returned to his native shores. On the maps of Kamchatka and Sakhalin region are a number of islands and coastal cliffs, solitary, named in honor of puffins. And the traditional place of its reproduction - the Commander Archipelago, where is one of the largest and most ancient sites of these birds, of course, referred to as the island Toporkov. Every year, flock of more than 100 thousand individuals, given that the area of the piece of land not exceeding half a square kilometer. puffins nest equip begin in May.
Most of the birds to lay their eggs in burrows are doing a layer of peat: dig a shelter strong beak, wielding it as a pick, shovel and paws the ground outside Serokrylaya gull takes away the legitimate prey for puffins. Since fishing spots are far removed from the land, puffins chick immediately bring a whole "bunch "fish clamped in its beak. Reliably established record catch - 29 fishes at a time! a strong long surf around the island wide strip of sea foam, filled with green algae that feed on birds.
