Stocky black seabird. Breeding birds have a white face, long yellow plumes at the back of the head, and a large triangular red and orangish bill.
Large mostly black seabird with an unmistakable red bill. Breeding birds have yellow head plumes.
Mostly black seabird with large, triangular bill. Breeding birds have extravagant head plumes and face pattern, but this can be difficult to see at long range.
Nonbreeding birds are dark overall, with a gray face, reduced yellow plumes, and a smaller orange and gray bill.
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A stocky, football-sized seabird with a very short neck, large head, broad wings, enormous bill (especially during the breeding season) that is laterally flattened, short tail, rather short legs, and large, webbed feet.
Larger than a Horned Grebe, smaller than a Common Murre.
crow-sizedTufted Puffins nest in colonies on steep rocky islands, usually in grassy turf on slopes, sometimes in crevices among stones. They typically dig burrows into the soil for nesting. During the breeding season, Tufted Puffins forage relatively near the nest site, though some may commute over 60 miles to productive foraging grounds over the continental shelf. After nesting, adults disperse to sea, with most of the population wintering over very deep water far out in the central North Pacific. Juveniles also winter there, and because they do not breed until their third year, may remain on the open ocean for two more years.
Auks, Murres, and Puffins(Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Alcidae)
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