Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica, is a species of colonial seabird found in unvegetated or sparsely vegetated land ecosystems.

Fratercula arctica has a breeding population size of 601000-602000 pairs and a breeding range size of 16800 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Uncertain in both the short term and the long term.

The EU population status of Fratercula arctica was assessed as Near Threatened, because the species comes close to meeting the IUCN Red List criteria at the EU27 scale.