Exempel på puffin

• That is a very grave danger, not only to the salmon but also to the seabirds—the puffins and guillemots.

• It is a magnificent wild bird area—a wonderful place to see puffins.

• They are in particular the guillemot, the puffin and the gannet.

• Meanwhile, the industrial hoovering-up of species such as sand eels has led to crashing populations of bird species such as puffins.

• Heavily oiled puffins and razor bills are being washed ashore as well.

• Puffins, razorbills, guillemots and birds of that type have their feathers clogged with oil while swimming and can neither swim nor fly.

• Other species, such as the puffin, have also suffered massive breeding failure.

• I am told on inquiry that three species of the auk—the guillemot, the razor-bill and the puffin—have suffered much.

• In the case of a partridge you find practically no nest at all, and in the case of a puffin you find the nest down a rabbit hole.

• My note also tells me that there is a certain tendency for great black-backed gulls to feed on puffins and shearwaters but that does not appear to affect populations.

• Assessments at two trial sites have shown puffin crossings to be successful in allowing more time for pedestrians to cross, particularly disabled and elderly people, without increasing delays to traffic.

• As they reach offshore islands, we should recognise the impact that this alien introduction will have on the population of sea birds, including gannets and puffins.

• There seem to be plenty of puffins.

• To lure them ashore and encourage the birds to explore their home, wooden puffin decoys were positioned atop large boulders.

• The restoration efforts are based on the fact that young puffins usually return to breed on the same island where they hatched.