Question #95b77

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Dec 13, 2017

Here is a list.
And here is a video that shows a pair of puffins who have bonded for life.

Explanation:

Here is a list of familiar birds that stay together throughout several mating seasons, often without repeating an elaborate mating display:

Atlantic Puffins
Bald Eagles
Barn Owls
Bewick's Swans
Black-Necked Swans
Black Vultures
Blue Jays
California Condors
Canada Geese
Common Ravens
Golden Eagles
Laysan Albatrosses
Macaroni Penguins
Mute Swans
Ospreys
Pileated Woodpeckers
Red-Tailed Hawks
Sandhill Cranes
Scarlet Macaws
Whooping cranes

https://www.thespruce.com/do-birds-mate-for-life-386725

Here's a video showing a puffin couple rubbing their bills together ("billing").
They do this as a courtship display at first, but after they have bonded, they perform billing as a greeting.

This video was taken by the Audubon Society Puffin Burrow Cam