Tufted Puffin
Fratercula cirrhata
The Tufted Puffin is the largest in size of all the puffins.
Tufted Puffin Photos
Here's one that's obviously not found in South Dakota. The first couple of rows of photos are of birds in the Alaska Sea Life Center in Seward, Alaska.
Tufted Puffin
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
El "Puffin"Copetudo - en Espaņol
Species Code: FRCI ...
Tufted Puffin
Relatives in same Genus
Horned Puffin (F. corniculata) ...
The Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) breeds along the Pacific coast from California north to Alaska.
Tufted Puffins are less social and more dispersed at sea than other puffins. They may nest solitarily, as well as in large mono- and multi-species island colonies.
Tufted Puffin: Medium-sized seabird, black overall except for white face and glossy yellow plumes behind eyes. Bill is large, mostly bright red with yellow and sometimes green markings. Legs and feet are bright orange. Sexes are similar.
The tufted puffins' home range overlaps with that of the Horned Puffin, though tufteds usually winter further south, along the coast of California and on the main Japanese island of Honshu.
Here at the Zoo ...
THE TUFTED PUFFIN.
[Tufted Puffin.]
MORMON CIRRHATUS, Lath.
[Fratercula cirrhata.] ...
Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata - Adult in nesting burrow
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In adult breeding plumage, the tufted puffin has glossy black feathers on its body, a white face, a yellow and orange vertically compressed bill, and long yellow tufts of feathers behind each eye.
MALE
Males tend to grow slightly larger than females.
Tufted Puffin
(Fratercula cirrhata)
38 cm (15 in) in length, with a 63.5 cm (25 in) wingspan, weight 780 g (1.7 lb).
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
Cassin's Auklet, Ptychoramphus aleuticus
Aethia
Parakeet Auklet, Aethia psittacula
Crested Auklet, Aethia cristatella
Whiskered Auklet, Aethia pygmaea
Least Auklet, Aethia pusilla ...
I saw: Common Murres,Tufted Puffins, Horned Puffins, Pelagic Cormorants, Bald Eagles, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Bald Eagles, Belted Kingfisher, Pigeon Guillemot, Marbled Murrelet, Arctic Tern.
Fratercula cirrhata Tufted puffin
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 ...
There are three types of puffins, the arctic, horned and tufted puffins. They tend to live in either Antarctica, Arctic Ocean and Arctic Oceans. Puffins tend to grow to have a wingspan of 55cm and weigh about 450 grams.
The Horned Puffin is most similar to the Tufted Puffin. In alternate plumage, the Horned Puffin lacks yellow tufts on the face and has white, not black, underparts. In winter, the gray face and white underparts of the Horned Puffin can separate them.
Some other Puffins include the Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) and the Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata). Images are these two birds are shown below.
It will "run" along the surface of the ocean in order to get up enough speed to take flight, or sometimes will dive off a cliff in order to get airborne. The Horned Puffin often will occupy the same general breeding area with the Tufted Puffin.
When the chick fledges in 40 days the parents will leave the chick and return to the open ocean. The chick will also fly out to open ocean waters and remain there for at least two years. Puffins breed in large colonies with the tufted puffin.
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, Horned puffin, Murre, Kittiwake, Sparrow
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