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Family Alcidae

Animals in the family Alcidae on Global Animal Guide. The guide features 3 species in this family — each profile answers the most-searched questions first.

Atlantic puffin with colourful bill holding sand eels at a cliff-top burrow entrance

Vulnerable

Bird

Atlantic Puffin

Clown-billed seabird of North Atlantic cliffs

Common murre standing upright on narrow cliff ledge beside pear-shaped speckled egg

Least Concern

Bird

Common Murre

Pear-egg diver of northern sea cliffs

Atlantic puffin with a colorful orange and blue bill standing on a grassy cliff

Vulnerable

Bird

Atlantic Puffin

The colorful 'sea parrot' of the North Atlantic