Credits
Image: Puffin by Ray Morris
Information sourced from:
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2015), Fratercula arctica [online], Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22694927/1 [accessed 29/10/2015].
The puffin's distinctive bill has given it the nicknames of 'sea parrot' and 'bottle nose'. Although it looks a bit like a penguin or a parrot, it is actually related to the auk family - its close, larger relatives being razorbills and guillemots.