Atlantic puffin

Fratercula arctica · Alcidae

The Atlantic puffin, 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 (Brittany).

Where the Atlantic puffin lives

Recorded in United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Norway, Iceland, Faeroe Is., Sweden and Ireland (Europe and North America).

Most records fall in Rogaland, Troms, Clare, Finnmark, Northumberland and Aberdeenshire.

See the Atlantic puffin’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Vulnerable (VU). At risk: it could become endangered. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 302,233 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.