Fratercula

A similar physiological system is used in some seabirds, such as the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), a vital oily food in the diet of the former inhabitants of the North Atlantic island of St. Kilda [5].

Conservation of arctic species 2009

Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), dovekie (little auk), razorbills (Alca torda), and black guillemots are legally hunted in Labrador.

Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009

Because of the length of coastline associated with this ecoregion, the area also supports a great variety of seabirds like murre (Uria spp.), eider (Somateria spp.), tern (Sterna spp.), and puffin (Fratercula spp.).

Eastern Canadian forests 2008

This includes the world's largest colony of northern gannet Morus bassanus - 60,428 pairs in 1999/2000, 23.6% of the northeastern Atlantic population; the largest and oldest British colony of northern fulmar Fulmaris glacialis (67,000 pairs); and 30% of the British population of the Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica (135,732 pairs).

St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom 2008

_Fratercula cirrhata_, a black guillemot (_Una grylle_ var. _columba_), a species of cormorant (Phalocrocorax) and a sort of gull (Larus).

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

Their preferred species were northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis), pelagic cormorants (P. pelagicus), thick-billed murres, horned puffins (Fratercula corniculata), tufted puffins (F. cirrhata), and glaucous-winged gulls (Larus glaucescens).

Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009