Auks (Alcidae)

Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) - HBW 3, p. 721

French: Macareux cornu German: Hornlund Spanish: Frailecillo Corniculado

Taxonomy: Mormon corniculata J. F. Naumann, 1821, Kamchatka.
Monotypic.

Distribution: Wrangel I, Heard I and Chukotskiy Peninsula S through Kamchatka and Commander Is to Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin and N Kuril Is, and W Alaska (Diomede Is, Cape Lisburne) S through Bering Sea to Aleutians and E through Gulf of Alaska S to British Columbia (Queen Charlotte Is). Winters offshore and along sea coasts mostly within breeding range, but casually S to C Japan, rarely to W Hawaiian Is, also to S British Columbia and N Washington and rarely to Oregon and California.