puffin

"Why, 'e took up 'is end o' the boxes like they was pounds of tea, and me a puffin' an' a blowin' afore I could upend mine anyhow, an' I'm no chicken, neither."

And over this desolate face of nature a stern silence reigned, scarcely broken by the flapping of the wings of petrels and puffins. Everything was frozen--even the noise.

Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas--the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and--so Limmershin told me--for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

Rob Fray, who luckily for the puffin is a bird recorder with the local bird club, came across the animal on Monday night.

Mrs Trevelyan told fellow MPs: "When they take off for flight, we see just why the Atlantic puffin - fratercula arctica, or the friar of the Arctic, so named because of its monkish black hood - is to be respected.

Puffin populations are alreadyunder threatas climate change affects the availability of sand ells, their preferred food source.

The other two packs are '6+', which is actually 6--8, and include sheets inspired by Wonder Woman(from Puffin's DC Super Hero Girls series), Michael Rosen, Diary of a Wimpy Kidand The Audition, among others.

Directly under Puffin Island in my atlas is the word Priestholme.

The authors suggested that climate-driven shifts in prey abundance and/or distribution, combined with the onset of molt, may have caused this puffin die-off, and note that further climate variability in this region is probable.

The Scottish Seabird Centre, a leading conservation charity, said the first of this year's pufflings (puffin chicks) have started to make an appearance.

Most are on Skomer Island, off Pembrokeshire, with others at Skokholm, Bardsey, Puffin Island and RSPB South Stack.

These numbers can be extrapolated to give an indication of the puffin population on each island - so they don't have to count every bird.