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With clown-like faces and huge, multicolored bills, they stand upright on sea cliffs along the northern oceans. Tufted puffins nest on islands and rough coastlines, from the Channel Islands of Southern California across the north Pacific to Siberia. If you see a puffin on the East Coast, it will be the Atlantic puffin.. After breeding, all three puffin species winter at sea, usually far from coasts and often extending south of the breeding range. [21] Iceland is the home to most of the Atlantic puffins with about 10 million individuals. [25] The largest single puffin colony in the world is in the Westmann Isles of Iceland.

The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin, are found in the northeastern Pacific. The Atlantic puffin breeds in Russia, Iceland, Ireland, [2] Britain, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova.. The nickname "clowns of the sea" suits Atlantic puffins perfectly due to their amusing antics and comical expressions. Watching them waddle on land or clumsily take flight brings a smile to many faces.