BWS in the News
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Wayward baby puffins get help from a community-led Puffling Patrol
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When baby Atlantic puffins in Iceland venture out of the cliffside burrows where they had hatched, they look for the light of the moon. It will guide them to the sea. But nearby town lights sometimes confuse them. This leads many to make wrong turns en route to the ocean.
A community-based Puffling Patrol searches for and rescues such pufflings that have gone astray in town.
These chicks — and many of the colony’s adults — are helping scientists who monitor and study the birds’ largely mysterious lives at sea.