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Atlantic puffin

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Atlantic puffin
The Atlantic Puffin with sand eels in its beak
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Alcidae
Genus: Fratercula
Species:
F. arctica
Binomial name
Fratercula arctica

The Atlantic Puffin, also known as the Common Puffin a type of seabird in the auk family. It spends most of its time on the ocean. It is known for its colorful beak and penguin-like feathers. It eats most type of small fish like herrings but it sometimes eats shrimp, krill, and molluscs. The Atlantic Puffin has orange or yellow webbed feet with colonys of the alantic puffin normally living on islands.


  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2018). "Fratercula arctica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018 e.T22694927A132581443. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22694927A132581443.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.