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Frailecillo coletudo (Fratercula cirrhata), Bahía de la Resurección, Seward, Alaska, Estados Unidos, 2017 08 21, DD 34🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesAlcidae
Birds

🐦Tufted Puffin

Fratercula cirrhata (Pallas, 1769)

The tufted puffin, also known as crested puffin, is a relatively abundant medium-sized pelagic seabird in the auk family (Alcidae) found throughout the North Pacific Ocean. It is one of three species of puffin that make up the genus Fratercula and is easily recognizable by its thick red bill and yellow tufts.

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≈ 1/80th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.77 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
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Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Body mass
0.77 kgrecord 0.78 kg · SeaLifeBase
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Record: largest individual on record

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Tail length
0.06 m
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Wing length
0.19 m
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Beak length
0.06 m
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Tarsus length
0.03 m
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Habitat
Marine
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyAlcidae
  6. ›genusFratercula
  7. ›speciesFratercula cirrhata
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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エトピリカ (ja), Топорик (ru), fraret crestat (ca), papuchalk chocholatý (cs), Toplunde (da), Gelbschopflund (de) … and 21 more languages
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