For four straight years, none of the puffins came back.

连续四年，都没有回来。

The gulls try to panic the puffins in the hope that they'll drop some of their sand eels.

银鸥试图威，使它们丢下几条口中沙鳗。

The pioneering effort paid off and expanded. There are now 1,300 puffins living on five Maine islands.

这次首创之举得到了回报，并将队伍不断壮大。现在，缅因5个岛上有1300只了。

These were petrels, cape pigeons, or puffins, and their calls were deafening.

这是燕、棋鸟和鸭，它们吱吱喳喳叫声震得我们耳聋。

More than a century later, puffins have returned with help from humans.

1个多世纪，在人类帮助下重新出现在了这里。

Puffins lay only one egg a year.

一年只下一颗蛋。

Scientists spied on Atlantic puffins, the distinctive tuxedoed birds with bright orange beaks.

科学家观察了北极，这是一种独特鸟类，其喙呈明亮橙色，仿佛穿着燕尾服。

At the end of the summer, the young puffins will leave these fishing grounds.

夏天结束时，这些年嘴雀将离开这一带捕鱼区。

The details about puffin proficiency are in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

能力详细信息刊登在《美国国家科学院学报》上。

Cress tried placing fake puffin decoys around the island.

克莱斯试着在岛上放一些假做诱饵。

Kittiwakes and puffins are birds of the open ocean, but they come ashore to breed.

三趾鸥和嘴雀一般在开放域活动，不过它们要来到岸边繁殖。

Puffins are social birds and they like being with others of their kind.

是群居鸟，它们喜欢和同类在一起。

Of the four puffin species, the Atlantic puffin is the smallest.

在这四种种群中，大西洋体积是最小。

Within days, the first puffin returned.

几天，第一只回来了。

It's a last resort to protect puffin eggs and chicks from being eaten.

这是保护蛋和小不被吃掉最办法。

Puffins spend most of their lives at sea but when they return to land, they become burrowers.

一生中大部分时间都在上度过，但当它们回到陆地时，它们就成了会挖洞鸟。

Which type of puffin is the smallest?

以下哪一种体积最小？

His attempts included moving young puffins from Canada to Eastern Egg Rock, another small island in the area.

他曾尝试将小雀从加拿大转移到该地区另一个小岛东卵岩岛。

Other countries with large puffin populations, such as Iceland, have also seen their bird populations drop.

其他拥有大量雀国家，如冰岛，鸟类数量也在下降。

Atlantic puffins look and walk similarly to penguins.

大西洋雀长相和走路方式与企鹅相似。