Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica
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Length: 11 inches
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Immature similar to adult basic but bill is smaller and darker
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Atlantic Puffin
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The Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) is the only puffin species on the east coast of the United States.
Atlantic Puffin - Fratercula arctica.
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) is a small palegic seabird belonging to the same family as murres and auklets. The Atlantic puffin has a black back, neck, and crown.
Atlantic Puffins, though somewhat awkward on land and in flight, are quite agile in the sea. During breeding season, they forage in shallow waters near breeding colonies.
Atlantic puffins land on North Atlantic seacoasts and islands to form breeding colonies each spring and summer. Iceland is the breeding home of perhaps 60 percent of the world's Atlantic puffins.
Atlantic puffins, Fratercula arctica (Linnaeus, 1758), are also known as common puffins and are nicknamed "sea parrots" and "clowns of the ocean" due to their large triangular brightly-colored beaks.
Atlantic Puffin Juvenile - The juvenile Atlantic Puffin lacks the eye markings and has a gray face. The bill is much smaller and is dull dark gray and dusky orange.
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Atlantic Puffins live in colonies. In Canada, the largest are found on islands off Newfoundland, where estimates of single-colony populations have reached 250 000. Winters are spent offshore.
Atlantic Puffins are the only species of puffin that lives in the North Atlantic region, which includes Labrador and south to the Northeastern United States, as well as the Brittany Coast of France and the coasts of Iceland, Greenland, ...
The Atlantic puffin can fly at speeds up to 50 mph (80 km/h). It achieves this amazing speed by beating its wings rapidly, up to 400 beats per minute.
The outer part of the puffin's bill sheds after mating season.
The Atlantic puffin is well adapted for life in the water. It is an excellent diver and swimmer. Its compact body, strong wings and webbed feet help it dive and maneuver under the water.
Atlantic Puffin
Fratercula arctica
Status Uncommon transient, rare in winter and summer. Breeds.
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica)-- This 12-inch seabird nests in colonies of varying size from a few pairs to over 200,000 pairs. Formerly called the Common Puffin the Atlantic Puffin has also been called the "sea parrot.
Atlantic puffins are compact, strong birds with a relatively long body. They have short wings and powerful wing muscles. At one end, the bill and head cut through the water that passes smoothly over the streamlined body.
Atlantic Puffin
Fratercula arctica
There are three species of puffin all of which breed in the northern hemisphere. Only one species is found in the Atlantic Ocean.
Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica
Horned Puffin, Fratercula corniculata
Tufted Puffin, Fratercula cirrhata
Biodiversity of auks seems to have been markedly higher during the Pliocene. See the genus accounts for prehistoric species.
Atlantic puffin,
Common puffin
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Cousins of the penguin, Atlantic puffins are true seabirds and spend most of their time swimming, diving, and feeding at sea.
COMMON OR ARCTIC PUFFIN.
[Atlantic Puffin.]
MORMON ARCTICUS, Linn.
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They nest in colonies in burrows or rock cavities on northern islands and migrate regularly—the Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica, as far south as Long Island and the Pacific puffin, Lunda cirrhata, to California.
2003. Reducing the density of breeding gulls influences the pattern of recruitment of immature Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica to a breeding colony. The Journal of Applied Ecology, 40/3: 545-552.
Their nests are in rock cavities in the large colonies on the northern islands , where they migrate regularly, the Atlantic puffin migrates as far south as Long Island and the Pacific puffins to California.
Their numbers are also being threatened by pollution and climate changes like El Nino. Commercial fishing has also depleted the favourite food for puffins which include sand eels and whitebait. Many North Atlantic puffins starve due to lack of ...
Pinguinus impennis - Great Auk (extinct)
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Alle alle - Little Auk
Fratercula
Fratercula arctica - Atlantic Puffin
Fratercula corniculata - Horned Puffin
Fratercula cirrhata - Tufted Puffin ...
 See also: Puffin, Razorbill, Guillemot, Gannet, Burro
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