Tufted Puffin
Fratercula cirrhata
Family: Auks, murres, and puffins
Tufted Puffin is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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Tufted puffins feed on a variety of fish and marine invertebrates, which they catch by diving from the surface.
Demersal fish are consumed in some quantity by most nestlings, suggesting that puffins feed to some extent on the ocean bottom.
The eggs are pure white or pale buff and are without gloss.