Tufted Puffin

Taxonomy

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Alcidae

Genus

Fratercula

eBird Code

tufpuf

Distribution

breeds North Pacific coasts and islands from northern Chukotka and Sea of Okhotsk through Kuril and Commander islands (eastern Russia), off southeastern Hokkaido (northern Japan), eastward through Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and southern Alaska southward to central California; winters offshore in North Pacific Ocean, and nearshore to southern Japan and southern California