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And over this desolate face of nature a stern silence reigned, scarcely broken by the flapping of the wings of petrels and puffins. Everything was frozen--even the noise.

Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas--the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and--so Limmershin told me--for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

"Why, 'e took up 'is end o' the boxes like they was pounds of tea, and me a puffin' an' a blowin' afore I could upend mine anyhow, an' I'm no chicken, neither."

Last week we revealed British trophy hunters are flocking to Iceland to shoot up to 100 puffins at a time - before bringing the carcasses back home.

"Young puffins get left by their parents anyway," he explained.

INGENIUS puffins have been saving up half their energy surfing the waves to hunt for food, researchers found.

Tagging and monitoring tells us that, from some breeding sites, puffins have to travel up to 400 km to find food for their young.

Chicks of the ground-nesting Arctic terns were left exposed, while young puffins - known as pufflings - were killed as the burrows they nest in flooded.

The puffins occupy vacated rabbit or Manx Shearwater burrows.

Summary: Washington D.C [U.S.A], June 2 (ANI): Birds like puffins are dying in alarming numbers owing to climate change, suggests researchers.

Washington, May 30 (ONA) Climate change played a role in the deaths of thousands of puffins in Alaska, according to a study.

The Isle of May is the largest puffin colony on the east coast of Britain, home to over 90,000 puffins from April to early August.