Atlantic Puffin Evolution Exploration

Location

100

Ocean area where the Atlantic Puffin resides

What is The Northern Atlantic Ocean

200

Biome of the Atlantic Puffin

What is an Ocean Biome?

300

Climate Zone of the Atlantic puffin

What is Subarctic Maritime?

Structures

100

The Atlantic puffin and the Butterfly have an Analogous structure, but what is it?

The Atlantic puffin and the butterfly both have wings to fly around, but the internal structure of a bird wing compared to a butterfly wing is much different.

200

The Puffin also has a vestigial structure... (What is it?)

What are the Herbst corpuscles (A structure which is now only used in flightless birds for prey detection, which makes it useless for puffins).

300

Look at the doc for this

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Jb7kq-N5eZwGYrL9jzkPdthkh4bE_vhfJAaeRIzOME/edit

Food and Diet

100

What general group does the Atlantic Puffin eat?

What are small fish?

200

How do Atlantic Puffins get their food?

What is diving?

300

What is the average amount of fish an Atlantic Puffin can catch at once?

10-12 fish

400

What are some examples of prey for the Atlantic Puffin?

What are Sand Eels and/or Herring?

500

What is the record amount of fish caught by an Atlantic Puffin at once?

62 Fish

Adaptations

100

What are some Structural adaptations for an Atlantic Puffin?

What are webbed feet for steering in the water, strong wings to swim, and a strong beak to hold fish?

200

Animals are either Endothermic or Exothermic. The Puffin Fits in one of these categories... which one?

What is warm blooded/endothermic?

300

How do Puffins deal with salt that they intake in the water?

What is a salt gland?

400

What feature do puffins have to protect their eyes underwater?

What is a special eye layer?

500

What are 3 behavioral adaptations of an Atlantic puffin?

Some examples include: Them shedding their big, colorful beaks when it isn’t mating season, they remember the location where them and their mate met for breeding season so that the species can keep living without having to find a new mate each year, and they know where to migrate each year so that they can find a mate.

Misc

100

Fossil Record

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TXDYeWpn4B9IaZ4lJlA7EPG8J7c6s0Dy9N-EyPuQN1k/edit

200

Cladogram

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CY1VL-2RuSb8lDmagYazuM5AbMK-htYpOADhh_Dlcjc/edit

300

How fast can an Atlantic Puffin fly?

What is a top speed of 55 MPH?

400

Who are some relatives of an Atlantic Puffin?

Some closely related animals to Atlantic puffins are the Tufted puffin, the Horned puffin, and the Rhinoceros Auklet. The puffins’ common ancestor is actually an earlier version of the Rhinoceros Auklet!

500

Credits

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/facts/atlantic-puffin#:~:text=Puffins%20eat%20small%20fish%E2%80%94such,for%20up%20to%20a%20minute.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/blogs/good-nature-travel/posts/ten-high-flying-facts-about-puffins#:~:text=A%20puffin%20can%20fly%20as,world's%20puffins%20breed%20in%20Iceland.

https://projectpuffin.audubon.org/birds/puffin-faqs

https://nhpbs.org/natureworks/atlanticpuffin.htm#:~:text=The%20Atlantic%20puffin%20is%20well,the%20air%20and%20on%20land!

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-secret-of-this-puffins-big-beak/#:~:text=For%20many%20years%2C%20two%20theories,has%20appeared%2C%E2%80%9D%20says%20Harris.

https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/seabirds/know-your-puffins#:~:text=While%20the%20Rhinoceros%20Auklet%20was,Auklet%20was%20the%20original%20puffin!

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/reading-comp/5th-atlantic-puffins.pdf

https://factanimal.com/puffin/

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/analogous-structures-examples-within-nature

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/puffin-fact-sheet/#:~:text=When%20it%20is%20not%20the,relatively%20close%20to%20each%20other.

https://www.visiticeland.com/article/meet-the-peculiar-puffins-in-iceland

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2020/12/11/a-vestigial-trait-of-birds-that-may-have-been-functional-in-ancestors-remote-sensing-of-vibrations-in-the-bill-still-active-in-the-kiwi/