Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) at burrow entrance, Skomer Island, Wales

The bracken in the background is secondary growth as a result of disturbance of the soil by grazing animals in the past. The bracken may however serve the puffins well, for a concealed burrow entrance should diminish the vulnerability of puffins to the murderous attacks of gulls when the auks return to the nest with fish.

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