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	Scott Islands - Tufted Puffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tufted puffins are diurnal, or active at the colony in the daytime.
		Tufted puffins are distributed in the northern Pacific Rim.
		During the winter, the tufted puffin is distributed mainly on the outer coast; some birds stray to the inner coast.
	www.pyr.ec.gc.ca /scottislands/tufted_puffin_e.htm (341 words)

	Puffins: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
		In Alaska, puffins breed on coastal islands and headlands from Forrester Island in southeastern Alaska to Cape Lisburne on the Chukchi Sea Coast.
		Puffins are abundant in Alaska today, but their numbers have declined along the coast of the Lower 48 due to oil pollution and fishery conflicts.
		Puffins are particularly susceptible to oil pollution because of their aquatic habits and the flightless period in winter for some individuals that undergo a complete molt.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/bird/puffins.php (1061 words)

	Just for Kids: Puffin Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tufted puffins are named for their tufts of feathers that hang off each side of their head.
		Horned and tufted puffins are found mainly in the north and breed off the rocky coats of Siberia, Alaska, and British Colombia, however, the tufted puffin often winters as far south as California and Japan.
		Puffins are not endangered but their population status has greatly declined in the past due to oil spills and fishing practices.
	www.akwildlife.org /JustforKidsPuffinFacts.htm (667 words)

	NatureWorks - Horned Puffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The horned puffin is a small, pigeon-sized bird with fl uppersides and a white chest and undersides.
		Puffins breed in large colonies with the tufted puffin.
		The horned puffin's legs are set well back on their bodies and it is not very graceful on land, but it is a very good swimmer.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/hornedpuffin.htm (516 words)

	Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
		The Tufted Puffin is the largest in size of all the puffins.
		Bald eagles, gulls, snowy owls, ravens, Arctic foxes, rats, and humans all are potential threats to the Tufted Puffin and its offspring.
		The breeding season for the Tufted Puffin is in springtime.
	www.thebigzoo.com /Animals/Tufted_Puffin.asp (791 words)

	26 Questions about Puffins
		It is the smallest of the puffins and is readily separated from the similar Horned Puffin by the steel-blue triangle at the base of its beak.
		Puffins tend to disperse widely during this time and as a result it is difficult for scientists to learn about this aspect of their life.
		Although the sight of gulls eating a puffin is not pleasant, predation at large colonies does not hurt the puffin colony because the majority of the puffins survive.
	www.projectpuffin.org /questions.html (3110 words)

	Puffins
		In summer, the puffin's bill is colorful, the upper parts of the body and collar are fl and the underparts white.
		Puffins are sometimes referred to as the "sea parrots." Puffins do not sit on their eggs.
		Peterson describes the puffin as being more "rotund" than the average penguin and as having a bill that is "attractively grotesque." Interestingly enough, in the winter, this bill is shed to reveal a smaller, darker bill.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/puffins.htm (967 words)

	Arctic Studies Center
		Tufted Puffins breed only on islands and rocky cliffs in the arctic waters of the North Pacific, which includes the Arctic, Bering, and Okhotsk seas.
		Puffins hold the fish in their bills until they return to the nest to feed the puffin chicks.
		Puffin chicks will come out only when they are ready to fly; before then they will never see the light or go outside.
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/html/puffin.html (341 words)

	Maine Secretary of State Kid's Page - Wildlife
		The horned puffin and the tufted puffin are found in the Pacific Ocean.
		Puffins are nicknamed “parrots of the sea,” because of their colorful triangular shaped beaks.
		Puffins are skilled swimmers as well; their webbed feet help to move them swiftly through the water and effectively to capture small fish.
	www.state.me.us /sos/kids/allabout/wildlife/puffin.htm (537 words)

	::Seabirds:: (Tufted Puffin)
		Tufted Puffins are one of the more heavy-set members of the Alcid family, which makes walking on land clumsy and necessitates a slope to give them enough lift to take off into the air.
		Tufted puffins are one of the most beautiful auks –; breeding adults are decorated with huge orange bills, white faces and long yellow feather tufts behind each eye, all of which contrast with their glossy fl bodies.
		A Tufted Puffin chick with emerging primary feathers on the wing.
	www.absc.usgs.gov /research/seabird_foragefish/seabirds/flash_cards/tufted_puffin.html (310 words)

	Animal Planet :: Corwin's Carnival of Creatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tufted puffins get their name from the tufts of feathers that curl back from each side of their head.
		Puffins are built for swimming rather than flying; they use their wings as underwater oars, and their feet as rudders.
		Tufted puffins are famous (or infamous) for stealing bait from fishermen's hooks both above and below the water.
	animal.discovery.com /fansites/jeffcorwin/carnival/flyingace/tuftedpuffin.html (643 words)

	Alaska Stock Images - Puffin Photos
		Puffins spend most of their lives on the open sea and spend time on land when it is time to breed during the summer months.
		Tufted Puffins, on the other hand, do not acquire the fleshy horn but rather “tufts” of feathers curl back from each side of the head.
		Puffin’s’ feet have adapted over time to be webbed and have sharp claws that are allow Puffins to adeptly scratch out burrows.
	www.alaskastock.com /Puffin_Photos.asp (777 words)

	Tufted Puffin Page 4
		Puffins also pull Farallon weed, an endemic species, as part of their courtship and clamber up rocky scree slopes holding two or three delicate strands in their beaks.
		We know very little about puffin chicks as they are left undisturbed and unbanded due to the overall fragile status of the species in the San Francisco Bay Area.
		Studies of the tufted puffin on the Refuge are limited to yearly census of adult birds, behavior observations to estimate the number of breeding birds, and monitoring of adults carrying fish to estimate the number of chicks produced.
	www.fws.gov /desfbay/Archives/Puffin/Puffin4.htm (410 words)

	Tufted Puffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) is a medium-sized pelagic seabird about 30 cm in length and weighing about three quarters of a kilogram.
		The yellow tufts for which it is named are on the side of the head when the bird is in breeding plumage.
		Tufted Puffins can be found throughout the northern Pacific Ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tufted_Puffin (292 words)

	Visitors to the ASLC
		Puffin pairs strengthen their bond with a courtship ceremony and occasionally grunts or growls can be heard in nesting colonies.
		Tufted Puffins usually lay only one egg, which resembles a chicken's egg in shape and is dull white in color.
		The Tufted Puffin is distinguished by the long, straw colored tufts that curve backward from their red-ringed eyes.
	www.alaskasealife.org /New/visitors/birding/tufted-puffin.php (449 words)

	Tufted Puffin
		Both the male and female Tufted Puffins have similar plumage and the young birds are like the adults but their beak is smaller and has darker coloring.
		Sometimes the Tufted Puffin is observed in the state of Maine and on Greenland.
		Breeding: Tufted Puffins mate and raise their young in colonies on remote islands in the arctic waters of the North Pacific includes the Arctic, Bering, and Okhotsk seas.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/arctic_wildlife/112411 (491 words)

	Tufted Puffin
		The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island are one of four species studied on Triangle Island as part of the Centre for Wildlife Ecology seabird research and monitoring program.
		Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) are widely distributed throughout the North Pacific but are abundant only in British Columbia, Alaska and across the North Pacific into the Sea of Okhotsk.
		Tufted Puffins are true seabirds as they spend all but 3 reproductive months at sea.
	www.sfu.ca /biology/wildberg/species/tuftpuff.html (428 words)

	Atxam Sangis - Atkan Birds by Moses Dirks
		A tufted puffin is a bird similar to a horned puffin, but it is almost all fl except for the face which is white.
		Long ago people went to where puffins were nesting and gathered them by hand in their holes and used the skins for making what the Aleuts called sax.
		Tufted puffins are small birds but they are very difficult birds to pluck because the feathers are very tight.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /ANCR/Aleut/AtkanBirds/uxchux.html (425 words)

	Tufted puffin description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tufted puffins are medium-sized members of the Alcid family (the northern counterparts of the penguins).
		Although the largest populations occur on the outer coast, tufted puffins do occur as summer residents along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and within the San Juan Islands.
		Tufted puffins are candidates for listing by Washington state and are considered vulnerable in British Columbia (blue list).
	www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu /whc/mehp/speciesconcern/puffin.html (120 words)

	All About Birds
		The Tufted Puffin is a seabird of the open waters, islands, and coastal cliffs of the north Pacific.
		It is larger than other puffin species and distinctive in appearance, with a bold white “face-mask” and golden head plumes in the breeding season.
		The Tufted Puffin can capture and hold multiple small fish crosswise in its bill, routinely 5 to 20 fish at a time, for delivery to chicks at the nest.
	birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Tufted_Puffin.html (288 words)

	Horned and Tufted Puffins and Rhinoceros Auklet
		Horned Puffins are widespread across the Pacific, breeding in summer along the coasts of Siberia and the eastern edges of the Bering Peninsula, across to southwestern Alaska and the Aleutian Archipelago.
		Tufted Puffin’s summer and breeding range overlaps with the Horned Puffin although they winter further south, regularly occurring along the coast of California and the main Japanese island of Honshu.
		Although this Puffin differs noticeably in outward appearance from the other three species of puffin (which accounts for its misnaming), this sooty-brown bird is anatomically still a puffin.
	www.projectpuffin.org /species.html (319 words)

	Tufted Puffin - Whatbird.com
		Tufted Puffin: Medium-sized seabird (alcid), brown-fl overall except for white face and glossy yellow plumes behind eyes.
		Tufted Puffin: Breeds from northern Alaska south to northern California and spends winters at sea off breeding grounds; also winters in Asia.
		● Breeding and nesting: Tufted Puffin: One white egg, often spotted, is laid in a burrow on an island or coastal cliff.
	identify.whatbird.com /obj/241/_/target.aspx (599 words)

	Learn about Tufted Puffins which nest on Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon
		Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) are pelagic birds which spend most of their life bobbing along out in the North Pacific Ocean.
		But their appearance belies their toughness and versatility; for the puffin, of all creatures, makes use of all of the elements in living its life.
		The puffins nest on the north and northwest slopes of Haystack Rock and you can get into a better position to view the north side when the tide is low.
	www.wildbirdshop.com /Birding/t-puffin.html (813 words)

	Tufted and Horned Puffins
		Horned (Fratercula Corniculata) and Tufted Puffins (Fratercua Cirrhata) are both close relatives of the smaller Atlantic Puffin.
		Horned puffins nest from the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia and the Kurile Islands in Russia north to cape Lisburne Alaska and Kolychin Bay in NE Siberia.
		Tufted Puffins are found throughout the same range as the Horned Puffun but they also breed as far south as central California and Northern Japan.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /nigelhomer/puffin/puffin4.html (412 words)

	Tufted Puffin (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tufted Puffins have the most extensive latitudinal distribution of all the alcids ranging from Japan, through the Aleutian Islands south through Oregon to southern California.
		Tufted Puffins need enough of a slope to give them the right amount of lift to take off into the air from the rock or nest site location.
		Tufted Puffins winter at sea and are rarely seen from land during that time.
	www.sea-edu.org.cob-web.org:8888 /tuftpuff.htm (532 words)

	Birds of British Columbia: Tufted Puffin
		Everyone is familiar with the brightly coloured face and bill of this species, and yet it is a bird that is surprisingly difficult to see.
		Tufted Puffins are most often encountered when they are at their breeding colonies, but these colonies are almost all on islands which are all but inaccessible, on the Queen Charlotte Islands, and on Vancouver Island's west coast.
		Like other members of the alcid family, puffins use their webbed feet for propulsion on the surface, but when they dive, they use their wings to literally fly underwater.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /wildlife/?id=94 (327 words)

	Puffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The common name puffin describes any of three auk species (or alcids) in the bird genus Fratercula (Latin: little brother - probably a reference to their fl and white plumage which resembles monastic robes) with a brightly colored beak in the breeding season.
		The burrows of the Atlantic and Horned Puffin are usually only about 1 metre (3 feet) deep, ending in a chamber, but the tunnel leading to a Tufted Puffin burrow may be up to 2.75 metres (9 feet) in length.
		The puffins are distinct in their ability to hold several (sometimes over a dozen) small fishes at a time, crosswise in their bill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puffin (480 words)

	Too darn hot for tufted puffins off B.C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tufted puffins are stocky seabirds, weighing about 780 grams.
		Tufted puffins are named after the yellow tufts above their eyes.
		Tufted puffins eat small fish and an anchovy-like species called sand lace.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/07/14/puffins030714 (1295 words)

	Tufted Puffin closeup - Bill Hilton - Canyon Country Images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is a Tufted Puffin, the other species that breeds on St. Paul.
		They are usually a bit more wary than the Horned Puffins and not as common, but we had decent luck with both species, given the blah light.
		Puffins and the other Alcids are the arctic's parallel to the penguins in the antarctic region.
	members.aol.com /hiltonfotography/pribilofs/puff_tufted.htm (222 words)

	Tufted Puffin
		"Puffins in San Francisco?" My friends ask when I tell them I study tufted puffins on Farallon National Wildlife Refuge.
		They are surprised to hear that a colony of tufted puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) exists just 25 miles out to sea from the Golden Gate.
		These plumes give them their name, tufted puffin.
	www.fws.gov /desfbay/Archives/Puffin/Tufted_Puffin.htm (185 words)

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