Habitat Horned Puffins tend to be pelagic birds only coming to shore, in the summer, to breed. They inhabit open ocean habitats and coasts. Positive Horned Puffins provide humans with a source of food, feathers, and down. Puffins are also used to make clothing. No special status Fratercula corniculata are affected by oil spills, overfishing, and pollution.
Many people believe puffins are penguins.
These are nonetheless two completely different species. Penguins and puffins do have similar body forms such as wings, webbed toes, and tuxedo-like color. Puffins can fly while penguins can not. Puffins also live in the Northen Hemisphere while penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere. References Dickinson , Mary, Lyle Rosbotham, Carl Mehler, Marry Herring-Dale, Carol Gillian, etc.