A flock of puffins gathering items for the escape plan.
Puffins are friendly birds that reside in the Big Water and are allies with the Watership Down rabbits.
TV series[]
Puffins appear in the second season's fourth episode, The Great Water.
Hazel and his group are lost at sea looking for Kehaar and come across a group of puffins. Hazel attempts to ask them for help, but they seem uninterested and don't trust them, most likely due to the harassment they face from the gulls. Finally, Pipkin, a natural, easygoing friend-maker, attempts to speak in a broken accent to a puffin sitting on a nest and asks him for help. The puffin happily responds that his name is Calohki and he is minding his nest but seems confused when he asks him if he knows Kehaar. Soon after the interaction, a flock of gulls starts attacking the puffins, and Calohki squawks at them until they leave him alone.
Later at dawn, Katerina and her friend agree to bully some puffins. Kehaar asks them why they want to hurt the puffins even though they have done nothing wrong, but Katerina retorts that they used to love bullying them together. Kehaar tells her he learned it's better to get along with the neighboring birds, but she is distraught that he isn't the same fun Kehaar she once knew.
The gulls start attacking the puffins, and Kehaar angrily defends the two gulls and shoos them away. He apologizes to the flock and states rabbits are better than gulls. Calohki tells him that he is familiar with Hazel's group and understands that not all gulls are alike. He means Kehaar that they are down by the beach, and he knows they are in trouble due to an upcoming tidal wave. Kehaar thanks his new friend and looks for the rabbits.
Kehaar eventually finds Hazel and the others, and they need to climb a steep ledge, he begs the gulls for help, but they keep sleeping and refuse to help. After realizing Katerina was a horrible friend to him the entire time, he asks the puffins for help. Calohki questions why his gull friends wouldn't help, and he replies, "gulls are gulls." The flock agrees to help them by gathering as many items as possible, as the rabbits would mix them with mud to support a lift.
The rabbits make it out of the steep ledge and thank the flock for saving them. The puffins thank them in return by giving them heaps of fish (despite the fact rabbits don't eat fish), but Pipkin pops one in his mouth to be polite. The flock says their goodbyes, and Kehaar eats the fish as the gull he is.
Known characters[]
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Cross-media Bob (dog) • Cemetery Owl • Crows • Fox • Hawks • Kehaar (seagull) • Lendri (weasel) • Tab (cat) • Unnamed Mouse • Yona (hedgehog)Humans Doctor • Lucy • Mr. Cane • Mrs. Cane Folklore Lord Frith • Prince Rainbow Books only Introduced in Watership DownDoctor (human) • Hawock (pheasant) • King Darzin (beaver) • Rowsby Woof (dog) Introduced in Tales from Watership Down Flairgold (glanbrin) • King of Tomorrow (deer) • King of Yesterday (bison) • Old Brock (badger) • Shindyke (glanbrin) • Unnamed Glanbrin • Zhuron (illip) Bark (badger) • Calohki (puffin) • Duster (dog) • Frost (lamb) • Gluk (gull) • Hannah (mouse) • Hyacinth (pig) • Katerina (gull) • Owls • Puffins • Ruffle (moorhen) • Skree (hawk) • Slate (turtle) • Tabitha (cat) • Tassel (squirrel) • Weasel |