Puffin

carlogalliani

hello everyone
I spent last week in Lapland in Finland and Norway
Many interesting species
if you want to see the whole gallery on Lapland with landscape and animals here :

http://www.pbase.com/carlogalliani/lapland_spring

I had too many shots at the Puffin and this is an entire gallery dedicated to the Puffin

http://www.pbase.com/carlogalliani/puffin

some examples :

carlogalliani

and in flight

denisegoldberg

Carlo -
You have some wonderful shots here. I was able to visit puffins (a number of years back) on Machias Seal Island off the coast of Maine. It's disputed territory, claimed by both Canada and the United States. I was fascinated by the birds, and I've wanted to return ever since.

Thanks for sharing!

--- Denise

Dick on Aruba

Awesome series Carlo, very well done!

Dennis Kaczor

Carlo, some stunning shots here and one bird that I would like the opportunity to photograph one day.

Andy

Puffins, nice work.

csmallari

Fantastic set !!!! Same here, would love to be able to take photos of these birds one day :-)

carlogalliani

thanks everyone for comments </DIV'>

PGM

Terrific! Best, Pam

Louis Champan

These are simply goregous.

kdog

David_S85

I haven't seen a whole lot of puffin threads, but I know I like these shots a lot - #1 and #3 in particular. Is it just me, or do puffins just not look like real birds?

carlogalliani

thank you very much

raptorcaptor

Great stuff Carlo!

fool4thecity

Pufins are awesome; thanks for shairing your images! Nice job!

carlogalliani

thanks everyone for last comments

dlplumer

lustlust

Overfocused

#3 on both posts are stand outs. Great!

IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer

Puffins I know
Unlike owls I did see and photograph Puffins in Alaska. But that was over 20 years ago, not great video, even at the time.

And your magnificent photos are of a different species, with its own special beak design.

Perhaps Puffins differ from place to place in northern lands, similar to penguins in the southern hemisphere. There are Galapagos Island penguins, and New Zealand hosts at least two other species of penguins. The penguin bonanza is of course Antarctica, where I was introduced to another four species, all living around the Antarctic Peninsula.

carlogalliani

IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer wrote: »

Unlike owls I did see and photograph Puffins in Alaska. But that was over 20 years ago, not great video, even at the time.

And your magnificent photos are of a different species, with its own special beak design.

Perhaps Puffins differ from place to place in northern lands, similar to penguins in the southern hemisphere. There are Galapagos Island penguins, and New Zealand hosts at least two other species of penguins. The penguin bonanza is of course Antarctica, where I was introduced to another four species, all living around the Antarctic Peninsula.

thanks everyone for last comments
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