Burung laut (Seabirds)
Tufted Puffin
Fratercula cirrhata
- langka
- 55 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Golden tassels stream back from its head in breeding season. The most flamboyant puffin in the auk family.
- Populasi
- Roughly 3 million individuals globally (other estimates range ~2.3–3.5 million+), with about 82% of the known/surveyed population stable or increasing, though the species is contracting at the southern edge of its range (California)
- Habitat
- Breeds in dense colonies on steep, grassy or rocky coastal islands and cliffs, nesting in burrows dug into turf (average ~34 in/86 cm long) or in rock crevices; spends the non-breeding season far offshore over deep, open North Pacific waters
- Fakta menarik
- Tufted Puffins are the largest puffin species and essentially "fly" underwater, beating their wings to pursuit-dive deeper than any other puffin — recorded to depths over 100 meters (roughly 360 feet/110 m).
- Sebaran
- North Pacific: breeds from Washington and British Columbia through southeastern Alaska, the Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands, and Bering Sea to Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands, and the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia; winters at sea as far south as California and Japan
- Makanan
- Small schooling fish (e.g., sandlance, herring, rockfish, capelin, pollock, lanternfish) during the breeding season, delivered whole to chicks (often 5–20 fish carried crosswise in the bill at once); adults and wintering birds also take squid and invertebrates such as krill, other crustaceans, pteropods, and bristleworms, caught by pursuit-diving recorded to depths of ~360 ft (~110 m)
- Ukuran
- 0,38 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,63 m
- Masa hidup
- 10 tahun
