晴空过客大西洋海鹦

Puffins

它们总叫人忍俊不禁,仿佛天生的喜剧演员,却非要装出一本正经的样子。人们常常把它们和企鹅搞混。因为它们都长的胖墩墩的,穿着笔挺的白衬衫和黑色的晚礼服。可实际上,它们跟企鹅一点也不沾亲带故:企鹅生活在南极,而它们生活在北大西洋。每年夏天,法罗群岛的居民们都会目睹成群结队的海鹦飞临小岛的盛况,此时是海鹦的繁殖期,也是它们一年当中唯一一次访问陆地的时间。

With their starchednshirt-and-dinner-jacket plumage, puffins are often confused with penguins. In fact, the two are unrelated and live in opposite hemisphere. Every summer, people in Faroe islands see puffins arriving there in huge flocks. They arrive there in their breeding season, the only time of year this northern seabird visits land.