Officials at Monterey Bay Aquarium are excited over the recent birth of the first tufted puffin to be bred at the aquarium.

The chick hatched on July 19 from an egg laid in June. The chick is being cared for behind the scenes in the sea bird exhibit of the aquarium’s Open Sea wing.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.