Birds of the World

    CHARADRIIFORMES: Alcidae (Auks)  
Genus: Fratercula (3 species)


Atlantic Puffin
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) Vulnerable
Range: PAL, NA: subarctic and temperate North Atlantic coasts: w, ec Greenland, Iceland, Faroe, British, and Channel is., nw France, s to n Scandinavia, Svalbard (n of Norway) and Novaya Zemlya (nw Russia); n Hudson Bay to se Canada and Maine (e Canada, ne USA)
Machias Seal Island, Canada  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.


Tufted Puffin
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
Range: PAL, NA: Arctic to temperate n Pacific coasts: n Chukotka, Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Kuril and Commander is. (e Russia), off se Hokkaido (n Japan), Bering Sea is., Aleutian Is., w, s Alaska to c California
St Paul Island, Aleutians West, Alaska, United States  
   
Photograph by Nigel Voaden   © All Rights Reserved.


Horned Puffin
Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata)
Range: PAL, NA: Arctic to temperate North Pacific coasts: Wrangel I. (n of ne Siberia), Beaufort Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Kuril and Commander is. (e Russia), Bering Sea is., Aleutian Is. and patchily n, w, s Alaska to British Columbia
St. George Island, Alaska, USA  
   
Photograph by Rob Dunbar   © Robert B. Dunbar. All Rights Reserved.



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