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Some puffins emerged from their burrows with mud on their front, I assumed they were just mucky from digging but a researcher there told me it was from amniotic fluid from the chicks hatching and could be used to measure puffin productivity in the colonies.

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Uploaded on December 19, 2015
Taken on June 12, 2015