Photographs and text provide a general introduction to the natural history of puffins, featuring descriptions of the three different kinds of puffins that live around the northern rim of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and discussing the conservation issues facing them.
A narrator sets out to prove that there is nothing like a puffin but discovers that many things, including a newspaper and a helicopter, are a little bit like one and that a penguin is very much like a puffin.
An illustrated discussion of puffins, unique members of the seabird family known as auks, describing their physical characteristics, swimming ability, mating and feeding habits, and endangered status due to overfishing and pollution.