Puffin at Saeheimar Aquarium, Iceland
Iceland Vlog #2: DANGEROUS Volcano Climb + Baby Puffins! | Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar)
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Our road trip continues to the beautiful Icelandic island of Vestmannaeyjar (also known as the Westman Islands). After doing the Golden Circle and leaving our hostel in Eyrarbakki, me and my high school friends take a ferry to a secluded island.
We explore the new island, we hike up the Eldfell Volcano, see the Saeheimar Aquarium and play with baby puffins! Also, we found out why kids on the island capture the puffins and put them in boxes.
Join me and my friends as we explore what Iceland has to offer, try new food, meet new people and stay in different places every night from AirBNB to hostels, to farm cabins!
Stay tuned for part 3 and watch until the end for some extra bonus footage!
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Vestmannaeyjar Islands / Westman Islands Iceland
In June 2016, we took the Herjólfur Eimskip ferry from Landeyjahöfn in Southern Iceland to Vestmannaeyjar Island (Westman Islands). It is around a 35 minute trip by boat and the cost is 1320 kr. You can book tickets and view the time tables at:
While on the island, we were able to meet a rehabilitated puffin at the Sæheimar Natural History Museum and Aquarium. The island is also home to volcanoes, puffin and other bird colonies, an ocean-side golf course, many restaurants and a handful of grocery markets.
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Hafdis the puffin
This is Hafdis ( Sea-Fairy ) the puffin, from the saeheimar aquarium in the westman islands in Iceland ( ). The curator there was kind enough to introduce us to hafdis, the puffin having just had her morning bath. Hafdis doesn't produce the oil to slick her feathers and waterproof them, which is why she stays at the aquarium, and why she is shivering a bit here as she dries off.
DZIECI EMIGRACJI #4 Islandzka ptasia wyspa - Vestmannaeyjar!
Ahoj!
Po długiej przerwie zapraszam Was na kolejną część moich islandzkich podróży!
Dziś wyjątkowo bez mojego słynnego pożegnania na Królową Elżbietę gdyż fragment pożegnalny uległ destrukcji ;(
Dziś zwiedzamy magiczne Vestmannaeyjar!
Przydatne linki i strony z których korzystałam:
Więcej informacji o Vestmannaeyjar
Film z festiwalu
Festiwalowe ognisko
Festiwalowa piosenka (lubię bardzo )
Miejsce gdzie możecie odwiedzić naszego małego uroczego Maskonura, którego imię brzmi - Toti!
Informację o wyspie i promach:
Linie lotnicze obsługujące połączenia na wyspę
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Fragmenty utworów należą do ich prawnych właścicieli i zostały wykorzystane wg prawa cytatu (art.29 ust.1 ustawy o prawie autorskim i prawach pokrewnych)
Toti the puffin, Vestmannaeyjar Iceland 2017
,Toti the Puffin, Vestmannaeyjar , Iceland
Drinking and playing with water from the tap , first time!!!
Holding A Puffin In Iceland
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Atlantic Puffin on Vigur Island in Iceland
This Atlantic Puffin brings small fish to feed young inside burrow on the island of Vigur in Iceland. Our Worldwide Quest group visited the island on 22 June 2016 and enjoyed fantastic views of the puffins.
Toti in Puffin Love #1 in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
Toti and Hafdis
,Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, calling Hafdis the Puffin
Hafdis listening to me calling in Vestmannaejyar Iceland
Puffin on Skokholm Island with supper for it's youngster
Taken on Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire
in July, 2007. Shows a Puffin with freshly caught fish entering a burrow to feed it's offspring.
Totí's beauty routine !
Puffin preening Sæheimar Aquarium Vestmannaeyjar Iceland
Tóti the Puffin
Iceland 2017. Westman Islands.
Lil Puffin
An inspirational tale of a Viking Jedi hybrid Puffin
Toti
The Puffin Tóti at Sæheimar aquarium in Vestmannaeyjar, waiting for the the next tourist to arrive.
Puffin Tótí says hi to his caretaker
Tótí the rescue puffin lives in the nature history museum on Westman islands, Iceland. He was brought to the museum as a nestling late august 2011. It had hatched weeks too late.. All the other puffins had already left the area and as the winter storms were coming, they no other chance than adopt the bird to prevent it from dying. The bird is now domesticated and the museums staff and the visitors are his family. Here he says hi to his caretaker. Filmed in June 2015.
Shake hand/beak with Toti the puffin
Jean says hello to Toti, an Ambassador for the puffins of the Westmann Islands, Iceland. Wild puffins shake beaks to say hello and Toti is willing to do so with others he likes.
Icelandic islanders protect declining puffin population ++REPLAY++
(17 Oct 2018) LEADIN:
Residents on a remote Icelandic island are working together to protect its declining puffin population.
The island of Heimaey off the south coast of Iceland is one of the world's largest puffin colonies. The distinctively-beaked seabirds are in decline globally, due to hunters, fishing nets and pollution.
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The remote Icelandic island of Heimaey in the Westman Islands is home to a unique bird rescue effort.
As nights grow longer, adult puffins stop bringing food to their baby pufflings. At night, the young seabirds are attracted to the fishing village's bright lights.
They glide down from the mountains in search of food. It can be dangerous - rough landings, cars and hungry cats.
Luckily for the young birds, there's an army of islanders looking out for them. It's called the Puffin Patrol.
Everyone on the small fishing island of about 4,500 helps rescue the small seabirds, from adults to young children.
Volunteer Gigja Oskarsdottir says the patrol started in 2003, when experts noticed the number of pufflings flying down to the village was in decline.
This is important for the population to know if there are any deaths of the babies in the nesting holes and to see how many survive and fly into town, she says.
Because it's estimated that one percent of the babies who fly into town, is only one percent of the total amount of baby puffins that are in the island.
So, as of today, we have weighed 4,195, so we can estimate that there are about 400,000 babies flying to the ocean for this time of year.
Young pufflings might be hard to recognise, they're yet to develop the distinctive, brightly-coloured beaks.
The rescued seabirds are brought to the local aquarium. They're weighed and have their wingspan measured, some are fitted with GPS trackers.
It's kind of all hands-on deck here. We have to have help from the local people, they have to go out and look for the puffins and, of course, bring them in here, so we can weigh them, says Oskarsdottir.
And then we have to have a lot of staff here to help because it gets very busy here, our busiest day was 532 baby puffins weighed in per day.
Even tourists like newlyweds Rebecca and David Hung from the United States lend a hand.
At first, we were like; 'What are we going to do with the puffin?' says Rebecca.
When we found them, they said bring it to the aquarium or to this centre, and that they weigh them, and they measure them to make sure that, you know, they can survive on their own.
A small amount of pufflings require extra care, especially if they're covered in oil from the village harbour or petrol from parked cars.
They can't stay waterproof when covered in oil and won't survive back in the sea. So, volunteers clean them.
When they're out in the sea, they need to be completely waterproof, meaning that the water just feeds off their bellies and their backs, explains volunteer, Karen Velas.
But when they're oiled, the water soaks into their skin, so they get cold, they're not able to stay afloat, and then they starve.
The Atlantic puffin – for many a national symbol of Iceland - has been listed as vulnerable on the IUCN's (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species since 2015.
According to the IUCN, numbers across Iceland and Norway, which accounts for about 80 percent of the European population, have decreased markedly since the early 2000s.
Scientists fear climate change may prove a larger threat.
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