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Prefectural Natural Monument
Birds
Tufted Puffin
Fratercula cirrhata
The Tufted Puffin is a seabird with a large red-orange bill and golden plumes behind the eyes. It lives across the North Pacific and dives to catch fish. In Japan it breeds only on a few islands in eastern Hokkaido, and the seabird colony on Yururi and Moyururi Islands off Nemuro is a Natural Monument.
- Scientific name
- Fratercula cirrhata
- Group
- Birds
- Prefectures
- Hokkaido
- 日本語
- エトピリカ
- 简体中文
- 簇羽海鹦
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The Tufted Puffin is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Hokkaido.
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