Tufted Puffin

Tufted Puffin
Photo by Arthur Morris / Birds As Art
All About Birds
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell University

The Tufted Puffin is a seabird of the open waters, islands, and coastal cliffs of the north Pacific. It is larger than other puffin species and distinctive in appearance, with a bold white "face-mask" and golden head plumes in the breeding season.

Habitat - Breeds on coastal slopes in ground burrows, sometimes under boulders and piles of rocks, occasionally under dense vegetation. Winters at sea.

Food - Fish

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