Tufted Puffin

Fratercula cirrhata Order: Charadriiformes Family: Alcidae (Auks, Murres, and Puffins)
Fratercula cirrhata Order: Charadriiformes Family: Alcidae (Auks, Murres, and Puffins)

Like the Atlantic Puffin and Horned Puffin, Tufted Puffins spend most of their lives at sea, far from shore. They nest in burrows they dig on slopes and the edges of cliffs in areas hard for mammals, including humans, to access, so most sightings and photographs are from boats. Tufted Puffins breed in the same northern Alaska waters as Horned Puffins, but Tufteds also nest in islands off the shores of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northern California.

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