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Tufted Puffin carrying capelin

By Alaska Science Center
Tufted Puffin flying with three capelin in orange bill. Black body, white head and orange feet with wings spread.
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A Tufted Puffin carrying a bill load of capelin back to its chick on Gull Island, in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Capelin are an important, energy rich forage fish for many marine predators.

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Photo by Sarah Schoen, USGS