Puffin parents can supply their young with fish more than 100 times a day. 3. Puffin beaks glow under UV light If you thought the puffins couldn’t get any more impressive, in January 2018 ...
During the breeding seasons the birds rarely stray more than 10 miles from the shore while foraging for small fish including sandeel and herring for their chicks. The island has seen its puffin ...
racing back from the water with beakfuls of fish, intent on avoiding gulls, skuas, and other aerial pirates. Unlike penguin colonies, often cramped, loud, and peckish, a puffin gathering is mostly ...
Puffins are known as 'sea parrots' due to their brightly coloured bills and are mainly found on rocky coasts and offshore islands. Around 90% of the Atlantic puffin population are found in Europe; ...
As puffins fly in from the sea with beaks full of sand eels, the greedy gulls wait to snatch the fish they have worked so hard to catch. It all happens in a flash, so we wanted to reveal the ...