Atlantic Puffin

Fratercula arctica

Atlantic Puffin photographed by Nikki K
Machias, ME, United States · July 22, 2025
Atlantic Puffin photographed by Apple
Mosfellsbær

When to look

Reported most in July, across 211K open records.

Records by month. January, 2,915 records. February, 4,920 records. March, 4,412 records. April, 11,699 records. May, 22,700 records. June, 54,152 records. July, 55,964 records. August, 32,256 records. September, 8,782 records. October, 6,966 records. November, 3,873 records. December, 1,936 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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