Atlantic Puffin
Fratercula arctica
IUCN: Vulnerable
Taxonomy
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Alcidae
- Genus
- Fratercula
- eBird Code
- atlpuf
Distribution
breeds North Atlantic coasts from Greenland, Iceland and Faroes eastward through Scandinavia including Svalbard, and Novaya Zemlya (northwestern Russia), also northern Hudson Bay to southeastern Canada and Maine (northeastern USA); winters offshore in North Atlantic and marginal seas, to North Carolina Gulf Stream and to Azores and Iberian Peninsula
Vocalizations
Steve Lawson · CC_BY_4_0
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.