“Rare white puffin visits its black cousins off the Isles of Scilly” news article by the TimesOnline.

I wondered if ever an albino puffin existed–and google answered, “yes.”

Albino Puffin -- at the National History Museum (Photo by Higgott on Flickr)

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Leucistic (partially-albino) puffin

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Leucistic (partially-albino) Puffin

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You can see another albino puffin here at Bobby Tulloch’s photography site.

In Iceland, albino puffins are sometimes referred to as lundadrottning (puffin queen), lundakóngur (puffin king) and lundaprins (puffin prince).¹

The Faroes and Iceland Studies in Island Life By Nelson Annandale, Francis Hugh Adam Marshall

1. Source: http://www.iansimages.com/IcelandicPuffins.html [↩]