#0897 · 🐦 birds

Atlantic Puffin

🇳🇱 Papegaaiduiker ·Fratercula arctica

VUvulnerable 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Paul Steeves · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jackson W.F. Chu · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © John Beatty · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Paul Pratt · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Steven McGrath · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Oliver Landell Mills · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © A Emmerson · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Atlantic puffin ( Fratercula arctica ), also known as the common puffin , is a species of seabird in the auk family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin, are found in the northeastern Pacific. The Atlantic puffin breeds in Iceland, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland and many North Atlantic islands, and as far south as Maine in the west and the west coast of Ireland and...

base stats

NL sightings 5iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 17,755iNaturalist observations
weight 376 gadult, up to
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).