A new light has been shed on the life of puffins after a webcam was installed inside a custom-made burrow on Coquet Island. The area, a certified seabird sanctuary off the coast of Northumberland. has four live cameras trained on the birds. The pair have one egg, laid on 25 April, and they regularly take turns to sit on. It is expected to hatch around 31 May.
Puffins spend two-thirds of their lives bobbing on the ocean in groups called rafts, and only come to land to breed. The UK hosts about 10 per cent of the world's puffins, but numbers are declining and they are now on the “red list” of UK Birds of Conservation Concern.
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