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A woman would need a year for all the labor to make one parka. Each lasted two years with proper care. All parkas were decorated with bird feathers, beard bristles of seal and sea-lion, beaks of sea parrots, bird claws, sea otter fur, dyed leather, and caribou hair sewn in the seams. (Gross & Khera, pg. 34).
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They have been given a number of endearing names including "clowns of the sea" and "sea parrots", and juvenile puffins may be called "pufflings". A number of islands have been named after the bird. The island of Lundy in the United Kingdom is reputed to derive its name from the Norse lund-ey or "puffin island". An alternative explanation has been suggested connected with another meaning of the word "lund" referring to a copse or wooded area.
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Annet has long had a reputation for being the best island for breeding birds and Jessie Mothersole visiting in 1910 described the island thus: > Annet is known by the name of "Bird Island" from the immense numbers that > breed there. In the early summer the sea all round is black with puffins and > razor-bills, their white breasts being hardly noticeable as they sit on the > surface of the water ; and the air above is dark with clouds of gulls, and > full of their ceaseless cry. Puffins (also called sea-parrots) have bred on > the islands from time immemorial. Numbers of breeding birds have fallen over the years and in the last 150 years some of the threats have been recorded. J H Gurney visited the island in May 1887 and estimated the population to be 200 pairs.
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