Atlantic puffin
Fratercula arctica
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Fratercula arctica
- Class
- Bird
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Auk
- Diet
- Fish eater
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Europe, North America
- Habitat
- Ocean, Polar regions
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- After breeding it sheds the colourful plates of its bill, which turns smaller and duller for winter.
- Its wings beat up to about 400 times a minute in the air, and it also uses them to swim underwater.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q26685 · All animals · All entries