Atlantic puffin

Fratercula arctica
Auks (Alcidae )

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Black and white with a large colourful beak. Black back and tail, white cheeks and belly, orange legs. The eye has a coloured edge and the beak is yellowish. 
In breeding season the beak grows larger and becomes very colourful with yellow, orange and grey-blue. Outside breeding season some beak layers are shed and the beak becomes smaller and yellow again, the cheeks become greyer.

Breeds along the north Atlantic and Arctic oceans in colonies to 10,000 pairs, each pair has its own burrow. The young are fed in the burrow until the parents return to sea at which point the young are on their own. 

⇔ l. 28-34 cm

It winters on seas a little further south and therefore is rarely spotted outside the breeding season.

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