horned puffin
fratercula corniculata latin

Horned Puffins will return from hunting with several small fish in their beaks.

More than 235 species of birds - from trumpeter swans to bald eagles to horned puffins - nest in the delta.

Common murres, harlequin ducks, horned puffins, pigeon guillemots, and spectacled eiders.

Maine birds include tufted and horned puffins, common and thick-billed murres, and marbled murrelets.

Puffin Island is a steep rock and, though much smaller than Chamisso Island, it has many more nesting birds on its surface, especially horned puffins.

Davidof Island supports a substantial colony of Tufted Puffins and Horned Puffins.

While they share some habitat with Horned Puffins (F. corniculata), the range of the Tufted Puffin is generally more eastern.

Taylor Family Puffin Bay houses Horned Puffins and Tufted Puffins.

Seabirds include northern fulmars, thick and thin-billed murres, kittiwakes, tufted and horned puffins, red-faced, pelagic and other cormorants, and many other species.

Optional two-day excursions are also offered to Glacier Bay National Park, home to horned puffins, harbor seals and humpback whales, and to Sitka, former Russian capital of North America.

The nesting substrate of the Tufted and Atlantic Puffins is soft soil, into which tunnels are dug; in contrast the nesting sites of Horned Puffins are rock crevices on cliffs.

Along with the red fox, marmots, otters, beavers, ground squirrels, Dall sheep, whales, sea lions, bald and golden eagles, tufted and horned puffins, and myriad lesser fauna, they participate with quiet dignity in the great cycle of eat and be eaten.

The Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) is named for its distinctive horn-like coloration.

The related Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) from the North Pacific looks very similar but has slightly different head ornaments.

The Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) is an auk, similar in appearance to the Atlantic Puffin; this bird's bill is yellow at the base and red at the tip.

They caught Puffins, Lunda Cirrhata, Fratercula Corniculata, Guillemots, and Cephus & Murres (Lucienm M. Turner pg.