Horned Puffin
Fratercula corniculata
The Horned Puffin looks very much like the Atlantic species of puffin, but it has a ridge of hardened skin that rises above its eyes in a thin vertical line towards the top of its head.
Horned puffin Fratercula corniculata
Identification Tips:
Length: 11.5 inches
Sexes similar
Immature similar to adult basic but bill is smaller and darker
Medium to large alcid that dives for food from water surface
Very large bill ...
Horned Puffin Photo
This photo of a pair of nesting Horned Puffins was taken on June 25th, 2006 off the coast of Seward, Alaska. It was taken on a wildlife cruise out of Alaska.
Horned Puffin
Relatives in same Genus
Tufted Puffin (F. cirrhata) ...
The Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) breeds along the coast of Alaska and winters southward on the Pacific coast to Washington and Oregon.
Horned Puffins weigh about 1.4 pounds (620 grams), and measure about 15 inches in length, with a wingspan of 23 inches.
Horned puffins exhibit a types of deceptive coloration called counter shading. Animals with countershading have different colors on their backs and stomachs.
Horned Puffin: Medium-sized puffin with black upperparts and white underparts. Face is white with a black, fleshy horn above eye extending to top of head. Bill is triangular and massive during summer, when it is bright yellow with orange tip.
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Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata - Breeding plumaged adult in flight
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Horned Puffin
(Fratercula corniculata)
38 cm (15 in) in length, with a 58 cm (23 in) wingspan, weight 620 g (1.4 lb).
North Pacific: coasts of Siberia, Alaska and British Columbia, wintering south to California and Baja California ...
Horned Puffin
This colorful little seabird can be found in the cold waters of the northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. Puffins are closely connected to the sea. They spend 6-8 months each year on the open ocean.
Tufted and Horned Puffins were seen on this trip and some were very close to the boat.
We also saw Kittlitze's Murrelet, Ancient Murrelet, Parakeet Auklet, Rhinoceros Auklet, Red-faced Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant ...
Fratercula corniculata Horned puffin
32 Seagulls:
Larus argentatus Herring gull
Larus armenicus Armenian gull
Larus atlanticus Olrog's gull
Larus audouinii Audouin's gull
Larus brunnicephalus Brown-headed gull
Larus bulleri Black-billed gull ...
Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica
Horned Puffin, Fratercula corniculata
Tufted Puffin, Fratercula cirrhata
Biodiversity of auks seems to have been markedly higher during the Pliocene[2]. See the genus accounts for prehistoric species.
In this series of images, the top two birds are Horned Puffins
and the rest are Tufted Puffins.
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THE LARGE-BILLED PUFFIN.
[Horned Puffin.]
MORMON GLACIALIS, Leach.
[Fratercula corniculata.] ...
Pinguinus impennis - Great Auk (extinct)
Alle
Alle alle - Little Auk
Fratercula
Fratercula arctica - Atlantic Puffin
Fratercula corniculata - Horned Puffin
Fratercula cirrhata - Tufted Puffin ...
 See also: Puffin, Tufted puffin, Sparrow, Plover, Warbler
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