Puffin. Like most birds they can walk and fly. In addition their short wings are adapted for swimming with a flying technique which means that they can swim well under water.
Response last updated by Terry on May 13 2021.
Mar 12 2011, 11:33 AM
In fact, any duck, goose or swan, any gull or tern, phalarope, currently available auk (including guillemots and puffins, but not the flightless Great Auk - now extinct), and probably skuas too. Cormorants and shags as well. Divers (loons if you're American) are a bit dubious - they fly and swim, but to describe their land motion as walking is stretching things a bit. Not sure about grebes, but as they're built somewhat like divers (legs very far back under the body), they probably shuffle on their tums like their relations. Source: Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, by Peterson, Mountfort and Hollom (Collins).
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