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Puffin (Fratercula arctica)🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesAlcidae
Birds

🐦Atlantic Puffin

Fratercula arctica (Linnaeus, 1758)

A lunda (Fratercula arctica) a madarak (Aves) osztályának lilealakúak (Charadriiformes) rendjébe, ezen belül az alkafélék (Alcidae) családjába tartozó faj.

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≈ 1/100th of your weight
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.59 kg
Body length
0.3 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
45 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Atlantic Puffin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.59 kgrecord 0.38 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.49 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.3 mmaximum recorded, total length
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Tail length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.16 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
45 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
42 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
1
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Marine
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.6 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Atlantic Puffin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyAlcidae
  6. ›genusFratercula
  7. ›speciesFratercula arctica
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. genusFratercula
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. genusFratercula
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maskonur zwyczajny (pl), 코뿔바다오리 (ko), Macareux moine (fr), Fratercula arctica (es), lunda (hu), Fratercula arctica (it) … and 27 more languages
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