Oh, hey, it's your girlfriend who never leaves the house without a cardigan alley ward.

And I guess, speaking a cold, let's hit the blustery shore and get pooped on.

It's puffins.

And people, it's a good time. So the year was this one and many dozens of you tagged me in an

Instagram post with a certified puffinologist and I took that as a calling from

the universe and from you to ask this bird person to please spend some time with me electronically

so I can ask about her whole life and that I did.

So first off, is Puffinology a real word? Would we be here if it weren't? That's questionable, but yes

Puffinology it's well established in news articles and ornithology circles so it is game on

Now puffins what are they they are black and white orange

build seabirds and their name derives from the word poofan which is thought to come from the look of this swollen salted meat but of a

completely different seabird something called a Manx shearwater bird doesn't even

look like a puffin it's a small gray seagull looking thing, but it's named scientifically

puffinis puffinis. However, that Manx seabird is not a puffinis. Puffinis, puffinis, not a puffin. What is a puffin? The genus

Fratercula is all puffins and it comes from fratrater for a monk dressed in a

dark cloak with its back. So what the fuck? So puffins in the scientific

terms are not puffins, but puffins aren't named puffins. It's confusing. Fraterculology is not a word and puffinology is so we're doing that. We're talking puffins. Now hold on to your butts because boy howdy it only gets more revealing and cuter and by the end you wish that

you could give birth to a puffin and love it forever. But before we get there quick

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