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.
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