Depending on which expert you ask, there are three or four puffin species.All puffin species are types of auks or alcids. Once chicks fledge and leave the nest, they spend about two juvenile years at sea, coming ashore only after they become adults.
Como Zoo publicly welcomed a baby puffin Wednesday. ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - A puffin chick hatched at the Como Zoo last month—the first in the zoo’s 32-year history of exhibiting puffins.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - A puffin chick hatched at the Como Zoo last month—the first in the zoo’s 32-year history of exhibiting puffins. Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English pophyn or poffin) for the cured carcasses of nestling Manx shearwaters. But perhaps because of its success in the North Pacific, or perhaps because the Atlantic Puffin receives much more attention, the disappearance of the Tufted Puffin on the west coast has gone largely unnoticed and unexplained.

Tufted puffin parents drop food delivered for their chick on the ground close to the burrow entrance and do not discriminate their chick from other puffin chicks (Piatt and Kitaysky, 2002a, Piatt and Kitaysky, 2002b, Wehle, 1980). Diet is the most striking detail of Tufted Puffin biology. By Stella’s day-two checkup, something was clearly amiss. Thick orange bill and orange feet. The Tufted Puffin is a seabird of the open waters, islands, and coastal cliffs of the north Pacific.
Nonbreeding and young birds have reduced yellow tuft, gray face, and smaller, duller bill.

It is larger than other puffin species and distinctive in appearance, with a bold white "face-mask" and golden head plumes in the breeding season. Range: This species of puffin breeds from northwestern Alaska south along coast to central California, and winters at …

A First For Como! Eccentric professor Like Atlantic and Horned Puffins, the Tufted is a sweet-faced clown of the sea. Once puffin chicks hatch in the Aviary, they’re often not … Como Zoo welcomes a baby puffin, the first ever tufted puffin chick to hatch in Como’s history of exhibiting puffins that dates back to 1987. Like the tufted and horned puffin, it ranges across the North Pacific.

Chicks are … The largest puffin, this chunky seabird has an entirely black body, white face, and fetching tuft of yellowish feathers curling around its nape. Diet.

Puffins belong to a group of seabirds known as auks, or alcids. And with good reason: The puffin is an undeniably attractive bird, looking something like a cross between a parrot and a penguin, sharply made up and impeccably dressed. The tufted or crested puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) and the horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata) live in the North Pacific.

Newport, Oregon—When a tufted puffin chick hatched in the Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Seabird Aviary on July 24, it seemed as if everything was going to plan. Updated: August 14, 2019 02:22 PM. c) Tufted Puffin: The Tufted Puffin is the largest puffin and is characterized by long, straw-colored feathers that extend back from its crown during the mating season. Young birds could be confused with Rhinoceros Auklet, but bill is longer and thicker. Somehow this little bird manages to carry as many as 60 small fish at a time crosswise in its bill to bring back to its chick (each pair of puffins produces only one egg per season). Chicks remain in the burrow for about six weeks, then “fly the coop” and begin to live independently. Tufted puffins are one of the most beautiful auks - breeding adults are decorated with huge orange bills, white faces and long yellow feather tufts behind each eye, all of which contrast with their glossy black bodies. The baby bird, nicknamed Stella, weighed in at a healthy 64 grams, and was under the care of experienced parents. The tufted puffin A tufted puffin chick and parent in their “burrow” Each spring, the first thing our aviculturists ask themselves is whether they are in need of or have room for any new birds in the Aviary. Tufted Puffins are medium-sized, compact birds with a large head, short, stiff wings and webbed feet on short legs.

Tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica – not represented at Georgia Aquarium) Genus name, Fratercula, means “little brother” in Latin, a reference the black and white coloration of these birds, which resembles the robes of a monk.