Allthingswildlife
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Allthingswildlife
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This evening, the Noss Boat - Shetland Seabird Tours crew found a storm blown Atlantic puffin, emaciated, exhausted but surprisingly alert on a secluded Shetland beach! It came lumbering towards us over the rocks, and flopped at our feet, and was easily caught and taken into care. We are finding a number of dead Atlantic puffin and other auks such as guillemots on our winter beachcombing walks, a large number of seabirds succumb to the winter weather out on the open ocean, but we’ve never come across a live beached auk before. This adult winter plumaged puffin will be fed and hopefully released after the current storm has passed tomorrow. #puffin #shetland #winterstorm






















