The tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) can be found in the north Pacific Ocean and it is a migratory species. It feeds on fish and marine invertebrates. The yellow tufts appear annually as the breeding season begins in the summer and they molt off afterwards. Their face also turns from white to grey for the winter. Thus, on the stamp, issued in 2013, they appear in their summer plumage.
FFAP 100th Anniversary, France
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Some nice stamps from France on this cover postmarked in the Strasbourg
suburb of Newhof. The stamps top left and right commemorate the 99th and
98th congr...
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