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Horned puffins are fat, comical seabirds found mainly in the cold waters of the north Pacific ocean and Bering Sea. Their name comes from the fleshy 'horn' above the eye, which is easily seen in these photos; the huge, colorful bill is present during the breeding season but the bright 'sheath' is lost in winter and the bill appears much smaller and duller. These puffins were photographed on Saint Paul Island in the Pribilofs, in the Bering Sea off western Alaska. Horned puffins are closely related to Atlantic puffins and to tufted puffins, which share their North Pacific habitat. |
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