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A scene depicting a great auk, as well as razor-bills and puffins. The great auk is now extinct.

Great auk, razor-bills, and puffins

A scene depicting a great auk, as well as razor-bills and puffins. The great auk is now extinct.

Puffins are a bird genus of the auk family, characterized by the great development of the beak. In habits, the birds are oceanic and gregarious. They feed chiefly on the fry of fish, and swim and dive with great ease.

Common Arctic Puffin

Puffins are a bird genus of the auk family, characterized by the great development of the beak. In habits,…

A marine diving bird, allied to the auk, and having a short, thick beak like that of the parrot.

Puffin

A marine diving bird, allied to the auk, and having a short, thick beak like that of the parrot.

Averaging about twelve inches in length, the arctic puffin feeds chiefly on young fish, crustaceans, and insects.

Arctic Puffin

Averaging about twelve inches in length, the arctic puffin feeds chiefly on young fish, crustaceans,…

A group of birds standing on a shore, with icebergs eveident in the background.

Puffins, guillemots, the great northern diver, etc

A group of birds standing on a shore, with icebergs eveident in the background.

9. Cormorant, 10. Guillemot, 11. Puffin, 12. Sanderling, 13. Herring Gull, 14. Tern.

Types of Seashore Life

9. Cormorant, 10. Guillemot, 11. Puffin, 12. Sanderling, 13. Herring Gull, 14. Tern.