Atlantic Puffin
Fratercula arctica(Linnaeus, C, 1758)
English (US) Atlantic Puffin
The Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Alcidae (Auks, Puffins, and Murres) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds North Atlantic coasts from Greenland, Iceland and Faroes eastward through Scandinavia including Svalbard, and Novaya Zemlya (northwestern Russia), also northern Hudson Bay to southeastern Canada and Maine (northeastern USA); winters offshore in North Atlantic and marginal seas, to North Carolina Gulf Stream and to Azores and Iberian PeninsulaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Fratercula arctica
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Atlantic Puffin
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Alca arctica
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
- Type locality
- Seas of northern Europe; restricted type locality, Norway.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.130
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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