Horned Puffin
Fratercula corniculata(Naumann, JF, 1821)
English (US) Horned Puffin
The Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) 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 Wrangel Island eastward to Kamchatka, Kuril, and Commander islands (northeastern Russia), through Bering Sea and Aleutian islands and patchily in western and southern Alaska southward to British Columbia; winters offshore and coastally in North Pacific Ocean, mostly in breeding rangeRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Fratercula corniculata
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Horned Puffin
- Described by
- (Naumann, JF, 1821)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Mormon corniculata
- Described by
- (Naumann, JF, 1821)
- Type locality
- Kamchatka.
- Original description
- Isis von Oken 8,9 col.782 pl.7 fig.3,4
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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