Puffin Carrying Sand Eels

Charadriiformes

Place: Inner Farne, Farne Islands, Northumbria
Date: 29 June 2018.














Place: The Wick, Skomer
Date: 17 July 2018.













[Fratercula arctica, Family Alcidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Atlantic puffin]

The sound of the puffin (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Hans Petter Kristoffersen)

Distribution and sightings of the puffin across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

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