Fratercula corniculata

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Fratercula corniculata - northern Pacific puffin

horned puffin

puffin - any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills

Fratercula, genus Fratercula - puffins

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pygmaea Rhinoceros Auklet 507 330 Cerorhinca monocerata Puffin (unidentified) * 707 460 Horned Puffin 537 31% 349 Fratercula corniculata Tufted Puffin F.

Calculating food production in the subsistence harvest of birds and eggs

Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata: This species was the last of the family Alcidae to arrive at its nesting sites on the south coast.

Seabirds of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russia

The largest documented arctic fox larder contained 107 least auklets (Aethia pusilla), 18 creasted auklets (Aethia cristaletta), 7 fork-tailed storm-petrels (Oceanodroma furcata), 3 tufted puffins (Lunda cirrhata) and a horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata; Murie, 1959).