A PUFFIN plays a beaky blinder by stuffing its mouth full of sand eels. The bird was unlikely to go hungry after it was seen carrying half a dozen fish, freshly caught in the North Sea. It then fle… ...

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One of the puffin's favourite foods in European waters is the sand eel. "If they are not there in sufficient numbers at the right time, these seabirds don't do well," says Robertson.

Sand eels are a vital source of food for seabirds that live along the UK coastline, including the internationally important puffin colony at Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire.

Puffins also known as the 'clowns of the sea' are the best known of the British auks which also include the guillemot, razorbill and other auks. Find out more on the BBC Wales Nature & Outdoors ...

National Trust Images Many would say that is a power which has been more talked about than actually used, but in this case, with regards to sand eels, things are very different. So there is a ...

A NEW documentary series has claimed that bird species such as the Fulmar and Puffin may disappear from the Saltee Islands if fish stocks continue to decline and the sea continues to get warmer.