Auks
Atlantic Puffin
Fratercula arctica
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin, are found in the northeastern Pacific. The Atlantic puffin breeds in Iceland, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland and many North Atlantic islands, and as far south as Maine in the west and the west coast of Ireland and...
- Family
- Auks
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 593 g
- Habitat
- Marine
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Migrant
- Countries recorded
- 21
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