Puffin Lundi Bird wooden sculpture
The puffin is one of Icelands most iconic birds. Usually found by Iceland’s rough coastlines which provides nesting grounds to around 60% of the puffin’s world population. The carved wooden sculpture puffin bird featuring a magnetic head that attaches to the body to change its orientation as desired. Puffin is a beautiful décor for indoors.
In Icelandic, the puffin is called Lundi or sometimes Prófastur.
H 13cm x width 6cm
Turned wood
Magnetic head
Designed by Sigurjón Pálsson
Made in Iceland
Puffins in Iceland are harbingers of Spring
Lundi Puffins are heralds of spring in Iceland and they usually begin arriving in early April and stay as late as early September. Puffins birds makes its home on islands and cliff tops around the coast of Iceland.
Fun facts about Puffins
Puffins are widely regarded as the cutest birds on Earth and 60% of the world’s puffins breed in Iceland.
The North Atlantic puffin, Lundi, is a seabird native to the North Atlantic Ocean. It breeds in clifftop colonies along the coasts of Northwestern Europe, the Artic fringes and Northeastern America.