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Puffins

Because they look like toys – so pretty in their stripy bills and bright orange feet, so serious in the way they prance about their colonies like little gentlemen in tailcoats with faces like clowns – puffins are our favourite seabirds. But there is a lot more to a puffin than sweetness. All winter they are alone, out in the wilds of the Atlantic, some of them spending months much

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