There are four different species: Atlantic puffin, horned puffin, tufted puffin and the rhinoceros auklet. They are members of the Alcidae family, more commonly known as the auks. “With their ...

There Are Multiple Species of Puffins There are four species of puffins: Atlantic, horned, tufted and (despite the misleading name) rhinoceros auklets. They live along the northern coastlines of the ...

Our Atlantic puffin is the smallest and looks fairly similar to the Horned Puffin, which breeds along the Alaska-British Columbia border. The easiest way to tell the two apart is by their beaks.