Ornaments and overflight behaviour of Tufted Puffins (Fraterculacirrhata) breeding on Triangle Island, British Columbia.

Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) Science Article 3

abstract

Tufted puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) are unusual among seabirds in that they bearmultiple colourful ornaments during the breeding season. They also engage in colony overflights when approaching the colony with food for their chicks.

Blackburn, G., Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. 74 pp

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