Tufted Puffin

Fratercula cirrhata(Pallas, PS, 1769)

English (US) Tufted Puffin

The Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) 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 Pacific coasts and islands from northern Chukotka and Sea of Okhotsk through Kuril and Commander islands (eastern Russia), off southeastern Hokkaido (northern Japan), eastward through Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and southern Alaska southward to central California; winters offshore in North Pacific Ocean, and nearshore to southern Japan and southern CaliforniaRange summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name: Fratercula cirrhata
Family: Alcidae (Auks, Puffins, and Murres)
Order: Charadriiformes
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
English (US): Tufted Puffin
Described by: (Pallas, PS, 1769)

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Taxonomic history

First described as: Alca cirrhata
Described by: (Pallas, PS, 1769)
Type locality: Seas between Kamchatka, America and the Kurile Islands.
Original description: Spicilegia zoologica, quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur 1 fasc.5 p.7 pl.1,5 fig.1,2,3

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

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Taxonomic history

Other species of the family Auks, Puffins, and Murres