tufted puffin
crested puffin
fratercula cirrhata latin

Sea birds are represented by Humboldt penguins and tufted puffins.

Some of the young birds represent endangered species like marbled murrelets, tufted puffins and peregrine falcons.

The island contains one of the last 2 nesting colonies of tufted puffins in the Puget Sound area.

Did you know that you can see tufted puffins when they are nesting on offshore rocks and gray whales as they migrate along the coast?

Ninety percent of Canada's hardy tufted puffins breed here where it is often impossible to land a boat and winds have been known to reach hurricane strength.

Watt spent four months studying tufted puffins with her mentor Anne Vallee, returning 16 years later after Vallee's death.

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

Tufted Puffins, for example, are pelagic birds that nest on the steep slopes and rocky crevices on coastal cliffs, often on islands.

S Map Living Coasts is a chance to get up close to free-roaming penguins, punk-rocker style tufted puffins and disarmingly cute bank cormorants.

The entire Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex protect over a million nesting seabirds, including common murres, tufted puffins, cormorants, and storm-petrels.

In a report in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they've linked rising ocean temperatures to a decline in reproduction of tufted puffins.

Seabird species include Tufted Puffins, the endangered Short-tailed Albatross, Spectacled Eider, and Red-legged Kittiwakes.

Blum-Kovler Penguin/Seabird House: Chinstrap penguins, common murres, king penguins, razorbills, southern rockhopper penguins, and tufted puffins.

Because of the absence of terrestrial predators, it is also the home of very dense colonies of northern fulmars and tufted puffins which nest in the hummocks along its slopes.

It supports breeding colonies of Tufted Puffins and Common Murres as well as Pigeon Guillemots, Storm-petrels, Cormorants, and other birds.

Not only do these islands provide the necessary habitat for many seabirds such as tufted puffins and marine mammals, but this area also contains the largest kelp beds in all of Puget Sound.

Wildlife of note on the island includes Sitka Deer, Red Foxes and Kodiak Bears, as well as Tufted Puffins and Bald Eagles.

Species that can be seen are Brants, Pelagic Cormorants, Common Murres, Tufted Puffins, Pigeon Guillemots, Western Gulls, and Black Oystercatchers.

Seabirds: The Kuril islands are home to many millions of seabirds, including Northern Fulmars, Tufted Puffins, Murres, Kittiwakes, Guillemots, Auklets, Petrels, Gulls, Cormorants.

The most prevalent species are black-and-white common Murres, Tufted Puffins, Rhinoceros and Cassin's Auklets, Pigeon Guillemots, Leach's Storm-petrels, several species of gulls, and Caspian Terns.

Scientists say rats have whittled away entire bird colonies on some islands, where rats do not belong in the food chain and the birds - auklets, murres, tufted puffins, red-legged kittiwakes and red-faced cormorants - are defenseless.

Rocky Shores Completed in 1982, this exhibit is based on the shoreline of Cape Flattery, Washington and serves as home to harbor seals, Pacific walruses, sea otters, and tufted puffins in four separate pools.

The birds found on the rocks are Pigeon Guillemots, Tufted Puffins, Common Murres, Rhinoceros Auklets, Brandt's, Pelagic, and Double-crested Cormorants, Leach's and Fork-tailed Storm Petrels.

Cannon Beach, on the northern edge of the coast, has its famous Haystack Rock, a towering basalt monolith that rises from the north end of the beach and draws many local shorebird species, including tufted puffins, black oystercatchers and pelicans.

Birds and Shores consists of Northwest Shores, which shows birds in a variety of habitats of the coastal Northwest, Alcids, which showcases diving birds such as tufted puffins and common murres, and the Shorebird exhibit.

The Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) also known as Crested Puffin, is a relatively abundant medium-sized pelagic seabird in the auk (Alcidae) family found throughout the North Pacific Ocean.

The cliffs of the Seward Peninsula and St. Lawrence Island in particular are nesting sites for a variety of seabirds including common murre and thick-billed murre (Uria aalge and Uria lomvia) and tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)