Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), dovekie (little auk), razorbills (Alca torda), and black guillemots are legally hunted in Labrador. From Wordnik.com. [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference
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.). From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Canadian forests] Reference
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). From Wordnik.com. [St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
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). From Wordnik.com. [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference
Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) DC. From Wordnik.com. [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference
Fratercula arctica Atlantic Puffin. From Wordnik.com. [Database of Press Releases related to Africa] Reference
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