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Sea Science in Action: Puffins, Resilient Sentinels of Ocean Health
Sun, Jun 28
|Anacortes Public Library
Who doesn’t love Puffins? Also known as “clowns of the sea”, popular folklore suggests a care-free lifestyle, like little hobbit seabirds living in cozy burrows on idyllic grassy islands offshore.
Time & Location
Jun 28, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St, Anacortes, WA 98221, USA
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About the event
Who doesn’t love Puffins? Also known as “clowns of the sea”, popular folklore suggests
a care-free lifestyle, like little hobbit seabirds living in cozy burrows on idyllic grassy
islands offshore. But the reality is that puffins are athletic, resilient, and voracious marine
predators living in an unforgiving environment. Agile and fast aerial flyers, they also
“fly” under water to great depths in pursuit of schooling prey. In this presentation, you
will find out why puffins are among the most successful seabird species breeding in the