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Puffins are any of three small species of alcids (auks) in the bird genus ''Fratercula'' with a brightly coloured beak during the breeding season. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil. Two species, the tufted puffin and horned puffin, are found in the North Pacific Ocean, while the Atlantic puffin is found in the North Atlantic Ocean.
All puffin species have predominantly black or black and white plumage, a stocky build, and large beaks. They shed the colourful outer parts of their bills after the breeding season, leaving a smaller and duller beak. Their short wings are adapted for swimming with a flying technique under water. In the air, they beat their wings rapidly (up to 400 times per minute)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 26 Questions About Puffins )〕 in swift flight, often flying low over the ocean's surface.
==Taxonomy==
The rhinoceros auklet (''Cerorhinca monocerata'') has sometimes been included in the genus ''Fratercula'', and some authors place the tufted puffin in the genus ''Lunda''.〔Harrison (1988) p. 406〕 The puffins and the rhinoceros auklet are closely related, together composing the subfamily Fraterculini.〔
The genus name ''Fratercula'' is derived from Latin and means "little brother", a reference to the black and white plumage, which resembles monastic robes. The English name "puffin" was originally applied to the Manx shearwater which (in 1652) was known as the "Manks Puffin". Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English ''pophyn'' or ''poffin'') for the cured carcasses of nestling Manx shearwaters. The Atlantic puffin acquired the name much later, possibly because of its similar nesting habits.〔Lee & Haney (1996)〕 The name has been applied to the related Razorbill in Ireland.〔
The oldest alcid fossil is ''Hydrotherikornis'' from Oregon dating to the Late Eocene while fossils of ''Aethia'' and ''Uria'' go back to the Late Miocene. Molecular clocks have been used to suggest an origin in the Pacific in the Paleocene.〔Sergio L. Pereira, Allan J. Baker (2008) "DNA evidence for a Paleocene origin of the Alcidae (Aves: Charadriiformes) in the Pacific and multiple dispersals across northern oceans". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution''; 46:430–445 (PDF )〕 Fossils from North Carolina were originally thought to have been of two ''Fratercula'' species,〔Olson, S. L.; Rasmussen P. (2001) "Miocene and Pliocene birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina." ''Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology'' 90 233-–365.〕 but were later reassigned to one ''Fratercula'', the tufted puffin, and a ''Cerorhinca species''. Another extinct species, Dow's puffin (''Fratercula dowi'') was found on the Channel Islands of California until the Late Pleistocene or early Holocene.
The Fraterculini are thought to have originated in the Pacific primarily because of their greater diversity there; there is only one extant species in the Atlantic, compared to two in the Pacific. The Fraterculini fossil record in the Pacific extends at least as far back as the middle Miocene, with three fossil species of ''Cerorhinca'', and material tentatively referred to that genus, in the middle Miocene to late Pliocene of southern California and northern Mexico. Although there no records from the Miocene in the Atlantic, a re-examination of the North Carolina material indicated that the diversity of puffins in the early Pliocene was as great in the Atlantic as it is in the Pacific today. This diversity was achieved through influxes of puffins from the Pacific; the later loss of species was due to major oceanographic changes in the late Pliocene due to closure of the Panamanian Seaway and the onset of severe glacial cycles in the North Atlantic.〔

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