Relationship With Humans
The Aleut and Ainu people of the North Pacific traditionally hunted Tufted Puffin for food and feathers. Skins were used to make tough parkas worn feather side in and the silky tufts were sewn into ornamental work. Currently, harvesting of Tufted Puffin is illegal or discouraged throughout its range.
The Tufted Puffin is a familiar bird on the coasts of the Russian Pacific coast, where it is known as Toporik (Топорик) – roughly meaning "axe-bill" –, while the other puffins are collectively called túpiki (ту́пики) in Russian. F. cirrhata is the namesake of one of its main breeding sites, Kamen Toporkov ("Tufted Puffin Rock") or Ostrov Toporkov ("Tufted Puffin Island"), an islet offshore Bering Island.
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