Atlantic Puffin Range Map

Year-roundBreedingMigrationNonbreeding

Migration

Short-distance migrant. After breeding moves offshore, where it stays at sea.

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

Living Bird MagazineNot At Home: Stephen Kress and the Puffins of Eastern Egg Rock, Maine
Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock
Bird AcademySeabird Success Story
Peek Into a Puffin Burrow in Iceland [sounds and video]
Living Bird MagazineThe Icelandic Saga of the Atlantic Puffin, the "Little Brother of the Arctic"
On the Puffin Cliffs of Iceland's Westman Islands [slideshow]

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