Thousands of Puffins Killed in Recent Storm in Britain

Thousands of puffins are feared to have been killed in the recent storms that have hammered the UK for the last month

The British Trust for Ornithology said today it’s received a record number of reports of puffins, wearing uniquely-numbered metal rings showing they are from the UK, being washed up dead on the coasts of France and Spain.

It’s feared they have been wiped out in their thousands while hunting far out to sea in the storm-lashed Bay of Biscay for their favourite food, sand eels.

British puffins head out into the Atlantic for the winter months, riding out the worst that the weather can throw at them.  

As the winter progresses, they make their way back into the Bay of Biscay before heading home to their breeding colonies and the burrows and tunnels in the ground on clifftops that they used the previous summer.