Tufted Puffin
Fratercula cirrhata (Pallas, 1769) (0, 1)
Photo © Dave Bezaire & Susi Havens-Bezaire, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
STATUS
Northern Pacific coasts. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
Another amazing Pacific Ocean auk visiting Britain by flying down the Swale Estuary in Kent, being seen by only seven observers.
BBRC RECORD
1). 2009 Kent Swale Estuary, Oare Marshes, adult, 16th September, photo.
(Birding World 22 (9): 354, photo; M. Wright, Birding World 22 (9): 374-375, plates 1 & 2; British Birds 102: plate 417; British Birds 103: plate 276; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 103: 601, plate 325; BOURC (2011), Ibis 153: 227-232; M. Wright, British Birds 104: 261-265, plates 132-134; M. Wright, Kent Bird Report 2009: 161-163; Kent Bird Report 2010: plates 16 & 17).
