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 ...

Sand eels are a vital source of food for seabirds that live along the UK coastline, including the internationally important ...

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 ...

For instance, hunters avoid capturing puffins flying with fish in their mouths, as it indicates that they have offspring to feed, he added. Nonetheless, experts remain concerned that the ...

The humble sandeel has made headlines after Britain and the EU butt heads over its protection. Why is this creature causing such controversy?

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 ...

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 ...

The UK will fight in court for its right to ban fishing vessels from catching sand eels, small silvery fish which are often ...