Check out the difference in just 25 days of Chicken the puffin’s plumage. Chicken is a 2-year-old tufted puffin. In early spring, tufted puffins’ beaks & feet turn a vibrant orange for breeding season. They also get more white on their face and show off their amazing tufts. 🧡
SEAlebrity Saturday with Phelps the tufted puffin!
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Do blondes have more fun? Ask the Tufted Puffin! This unique species is instantly recognizable thanks to the plumes of yellow that grow from its head during mating season. Fun fact: A puffin can carry more than 20 fish at a time in its beak!
The tufted puffin's most distinctive feature and namesake are the blond tufts (Latin: cirri) that appear annually on birds of both sexes as the summer reproductive season approaches.
A Tufted Puffin was photographed in a Puffin colony in the North Atlantic this summer, marking the latest in a growing series of records of the species in Atlantic waters: https://t.co/UzI3eyJmvH