Atlantic Puffin Photo Gallery

Stout black-and-white seabird with a huge, red, yellow, and gray bill.

Pairs often remain together for many years. Courtship displays involve head bobbing and rubbing the bills together.

Huge triangular bill is noticeable in flight. Black collar separates white belly and whitish face. Note dark underwings.

Nonbreeding birds have a grayer face and the bill lacks the yellow highlights.

The bill on juveniles is reddish orange and gray, but it is smaller and not as pronounced. The face is gray.

An unmistakable black-and-white seabird with a huge, multicolored bill, and a grayish white face.

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