Puffins only come to shore for breeding, which means they spend most of their lives at sea. What do they eat in all that time? Well, Puffins are piscivores, meaning they are carnivourous animals that eat mostly fish.
Species Food

Atlantic Puffin
  • fish
    • herring
    • hake
    • capelin
    • sand lance
  • shrimp
  • mollusks
  • polychaete worms
  • other crustaceans

Horned Puffin


  • invertibrates
    • squid
    • octupus
    • krill
    • bristleworms
  • fish
    • northern smoothtongue
    • Pacific saury
    • sandlance
    • capelin
    • pollock
    • greenling
    • salmon

Tufted Puffin
  • invertebrates
    • squid
    • euphausiids (a small crustacean)
    • pteropods
    • bristleworms (polychaetes)
  • fish
    • northern smoothtongue
    • Pacific herring
    • Pacific saury
    • Pacific cod
    • sandlance
    • capelin
    • Alaska pollock

Rhinoceros Auklet
  • fish
    • Pacific sandlance
    • Pacific saury
    • Japanese anchovy
    • night smelt
    • sablefish
    • lingcod
    • Japanese pilchard
    • Pacific sardine
    • rockfish
  • California market squid
  • crustaceans
    • euphausiids
    • copepods

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