Field Guide for Greenlandic Birds


Atlantic Puffin

Order:
Charadriiformes
Family:
Alcidae
Genus:
Fratercula

Scientific:
Fratercula arctica

Danish: Lunde

Greenlandic: Qilanngaq

Height: 10 in

Weight: 17.5 oz

Breeds in the West Coast of Greenland.

david m, XC336649. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/336649


References:

Avibase The World Bird Database (2018). Fratercula arctica. Found at https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=2771624B64AD7F2C

BirdLife International (2018) Species factsheet: Fratercula arctica. Found at http://www.birdlife.org

Lowther, Peter E., Antony W. Diamond, Stephen W. Kress, Gregory J. Robertson and Keith Russell. 2002. Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Sibley, David Allen. 2014. The Sibley guide to birds, second edition. Alfred A Knopf, New York.

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