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Three Puffins Forming an Orderly Queue

Human visitors to the Isle of May (limited to just over 100 per day) must stick to the paths because puffins (Fraticula arctica) nest in holes in the ground and anyone straying from the permitted paths could crush a puffin burrow, killing parent and the single chick inside. This could also prevent puffins breeding there next year. Thesaeee puffins with beaks full of sand-eels, don't want humans to know where their burrows are and are waiting for the pesky humans to move away so they can disappear down their own particular hole in the ground.

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Uploaded on June 14, 2010
Taken on June 13, 2010