English

A puffling on Runde Island, Norway

Noun

puffling ‎(plural pufflings)

1. A young puffin.
   • 2006, The Observer, 7 May 2006:

     Visit Iceland this August and you could help to rescue pufflings - baby puffins - who get confused by town street lights and crash into towns when leaving their burrows to fly over the Atlantic for the first time.

   • 2007, Katherine Zecca, A Puffin's Year:

     Whee-er-er, whee-er-er! the puffling cries because he is hungry. Mama puffin arrives and lays her mouthful of live fish close to the front of the burrow.

   • 2012, Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Birds: A spiritual field guide, p. 155:

     Both parents feed the infant puffling until it is very fat, then leave the chick, who must make its own way to the sea.