Puffins from the Shetlands

Charadriiformes

Place: RSPB Sumburgh, Shetland Mainland
Date: 9 June 2018.















Place: Noss, Shetland Islands
Date: 10 June 2018.







Place: Eshaness Lighthouse, Shetland Mainland
Date: 12 June 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).
Distribution and sightings of the puffin across the British Isles

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