Species: Fratercula corniculata

Horned Puffin
Species
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Aves

    Order

    Charadriiformes

    Family

    Alcidae

    Genus

    Fratercula

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Macareux cornu
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Other Birds
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Charadriiformes - Alcidae - Fratercula - Constitutes a superspecies with F. ARCTICA (AOU 1983).
    Short General Description
    A seabird (puffin).
    Migration
    false - true - true
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    true
    Food Comments
    Feeds primarily on small fishes (e.g., sticklebacks, smelt, sand launces); cephalopods, crustaceans, and polychaetes usually secondary. Dives from ocean surface, forages underwater. See Wehle (1983) for feeding of young in Alaska.
    Reproduction Comments
    Most laying mid-June to early July in Alaska. Clutch size 1. Incubation 38-43 days (average 40), by both sexes. Young tended by both parents, fledges in 37-46 days (average 40). Frequently nests in large colony. See Johnsgard (1987).
    Length
    38
    Weight
    619
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1997-12-23
    Global Status Last Changed
    1997-12-23
    Other Status

    LC - Least concern

    Conservation Status Map
    <img src="http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/GetMapGif?CA.BC=S2&US.AK=S5&US.OR=__&US.WA=__" alt="Conservation Status Map" style="width: 475px; height: auto;" />
    Global Range
    FG - 20,000-2,500,000 square km (about 8000-1,000,000 square miles) - FG - BREEDING: islands and coasts of Chukchi and Bering seas from Diomede Islands and Cape Lisburne south to the Aleutian Islands; from the Alaska Peninsula south to British Columbia; northeastern Siberia to the Kurile Islands; also Cooper Island, just east of Point Barrow, Alaska (see Johnson and Herter 1989). NON-BREEDING: open sea, breeding range south (casually) to Hawaii, California, Japan (AOU 1983).
    Global Range Code
    FG
    Global Range Description
    20,000-2,500,000 square km (about 8000-1,000,000 square miles)
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