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Birds of a feather flock together
From The Scotsman 29 August 2007
The Firth of Forth is also home to other spectacular birds, including guillemots, razorbills, puffins, fulmars, shags, kittiwakes, herring gulls, lesser black-backs and a few great black-backs and eiders.
The Bass Rock colony has been described in the past by nature expert Sir David Attenborough as "one of the wildlife wonders of the world". ...
Puffin colony brought back to life
From The Scotsman 26 July 2007
A five-year project to save one of Scotland's most threatened puffin colonies is already seeing swathes of the birds return to traditional breeding grounds. ...
Puffins face food shortage
Aftenposten - News from Norway - 16 July 2007
This year's nesting season for puffins on the Norwegian island of Røst is turning into a disaster. Hardly any of the puffin chicks are expected to survive, because their parents are unable to feed them. ...
Faroe Islands: puffins and punk rock
Monday 9 July 2007 - The birds in Faroes get another mention in a travel item on chron.com from Houston, Texas
The towering cliffs are fascinatingly alive with sea gulls, kittiwakes, fulmars and other birds, whose nests cling to even the tiniest recesses. And the turfy cliff-tops are riddled with puffin burrows.
Puffins are loveable birds with colorful Roman-nose beaks and a quizzical gaze. Their manic flapping seems barely enough to keep them in flight as they wheel around in eccentric circles. ...
"Tolkien tales come alive in unspoiled Faeroe Islands"
Thursday 28 June 2007 - The birds in Faroes get a mention in a travel item on chron.com from Houston, Texas
"Puffins, kittiwakes, gannets and the world's biggest colony of storm petrels make the Faeroes a top destination for ornithologists and birdwatchers."
Reserve to open at seabird colony
Thursday, 26 April 2007 - from the BBC
The craggy cliffs of Troup Head provide a home to hundreds of thousands of gannets, guillemots and puffins. ...
Similar burrows to puffins
Wednesday, 21 March 2007 from ABC Science Online - Australia
Dinosaurs burrowed to keep warm
"...The burrow, long filled with sediment, comprises a sloping, sinuous tunnel more than 2 metres long and about 70 centimetres wide, and is somewhat similar to holes made today by striped hyenas and puffins."
Scottish campaign to save puffins
Thursday 1 March 2007 from the East Lothian Courier
"A campaign to entice puffins back to two county islands has received a six-figure cash boost. The Scottish Seabird Centre at North Berwick is to receive £235,000 of landfill tax funding from waste management company Viridor for SOS (Save our Seabirds) Puffin.
This is a community-inspired partnership to save puffins on Forth islands Craigleith and Fidra, and protect the precious kittiwake colony at Dunbar harbour. ..."
Hitchhiking Turnstones
On 5 January 2007 it was reported in the UK Sun online that for the last two years two turnstones hitch a ride on the ferry each day to cross the River Fal from Falmouth to St Mawes in Cornwall. They take the first boat in the morning and return on the last boat in the afternoon. They are thought to be going to the beaches at St Mawes.
Urban-based birds 'learn to rap'
Thursday 28 December 2006 (from BBC on 5 December 2006)
"Birds living in cities are performing a type of "avian rap" while their rural counterparts are sticking to more traditional sounds, a study shows.
Dutch researchers found that urban species of birds sing short, fast songs rather than the slower melodies of countryside birds.
City birds also sing at a higher pitch and will try out different song types.
Experts said city birds have adapted to counter background noise and increase their chances of finding a mate."
Puffins threatened by alien plant
Saturday 16 December 2006 from CBBC Newsround UK
Puffins living on Craigleith in Scotland are under threat from an alien plant spreading across the island.
The number of birds living there has dropped from 40,000 to 2,000 over the last five years.
The Mediterranean plant, which is called tree mallow, is clogging up the ground where the black and white birds like to burrow and make their nests.
Tree mallow used to die off every year because of frost, but recent mild winters means it's now out of control.
Fewer puffins in Faroes in 2006
Reports from the islands of Nólsoy, Skúvoy and Mykines all show that the number of puffins, guillemots and razorbills seen in 2006 was much lower than normal and this is believed to be because of lack of food.
Who let the birds out?
Foul play suspected ... the chickens say it was nothing to do with them ...
Wednesday 29 Nov 2006 from "Spiegel Online"
"German Police Battle Giant Parrot
A giant escaped parrot has been caught by police after a violent struggle in which it tore up the uniform of one of the arresting officers ..."
Curious, only last week it was an Emu! ... on Monday 11 Nov 2006 "Spiegel Online" reported:
"Resisting Arrest: Runaway Emu Shreds Policeman's Trousers
 An emu who escaped from an animal park tore up a policeman's trousers while resisting arrest in western Germany ..."
Could get a bit crowded here in the Faroes
Wed 29 Nov 2006 in "The Scotsman"
" Experts said sea birds, such as guillemots and puffins, might gradually have to move northwards while the decline of the kittiwake, one of Scotland's most common seabirds, which has seen its numbers fall by half over the past 15 years, has been linked to increasing winter temperatures. Meanwhile, numbers of Mediterranean gulls, though small, are increasing in the south of the UK."
Puffin conservation project in Scotland
Wed 29 Nov 2006 in "The Scotsman"
Navy pair's puffin project
"Two Royal Naval reservists who are fighting to save puffins in North Berwick ..."
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