Mr Fray kept the
puffin in a cat carrier overnight before releasing it the next day at the Spiggie beach where it "swam off happily".
Tagging and monitoring tells us that, from some breeding sites,
puffins have to travel up to 400 km to find food for their young.
Puffins are ground-nesting birds and unfortunately their burrows flooded.
In the current study, researchers documented a four-month-long die-off of
puffins and a second species, the Crested auklet, on St.
The islands of Craigleith and Fidra feature as part of the Seabird Centre's SOS
Puffin Project, which has been running for 12 years and has seen over 1,200 volunteers getting involved to help
puffins gain access to their burrows by cutting down an invasive plant called tree mallow.
" for RSPB Cymru and submit photos of feeding
puffins.
A lack of ground predators and the work of the rangers on the Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast, means
puffins have generally thrived there.
The close proximity of human visitors doesn't seem to affect the
puffins' success: in fact, the National Trust says there's some evidence that the
puffins do better on the islands which welcome visitors, possibly because humans discourage predators like blackheaded gulls.
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"She dived and so did the
puffins. At first, I saw some flapping and I thought it was a fin but, when she popped back up, I could see it was a
puffin's head in her mouth.
In 1973, Kress convinced the Canadian government to let him translocate
puffin chicks from 800 miles away in Newfoundland.
Puffin had a particular commanding bark to tell me he wanted something, and his needs ranged from water in his bowl, the door to be opened, or an indication that he wanted to be taken for a walk.