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Horned Puffin

Animals; Birds

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. It is a pelagic seabird that feeds ...

Tufted Puffin

Animals; Birds

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

Razorbill

Animals; Birds

The Razorbill, Alca torda, is a large auk. Their breeding habitat is islands, rocky shores and cliffs on northern Atlantic coasts, in eastern North America as far south as Maine, and in western ...

Common Murre

Animals; Birds

The Common Murre or Common Guillemot (Uria aalge) is a large auk. It is also known as the Thin-billed Murre in North America. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring in low-Arctic and boreal ...

Bluebird

Animals; Birds

An American songbird of the thrush family, the male of which has a blue head, back, and wings.

Pukeko

Animals; Birds

The purple coot, or water-hen, Porphyrio melanotus, of New Zealand.

The wing bars make the bird's wing look "striped". They are pale or white tips of the greater and median secondary coverts on the wings. From a distance, it can be viewed as a horizontally striped ...