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Atlantic Puffin

Fratercula arctica

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Alcidae

The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin, are found in the northeastern Pacific. The Atlantic puffin breeds in Russia, Iceland, Ireland, Britain, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and the Faroe Islands, and as far south as Maine in the west and France in the east.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 20,218Spain · 2,310France · 843Netherlands · 572Germany · 45Italy · 28Belgium · 12