LIVE PUFFIN WEBCAM AT COQUET ISLAND
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- Location: Coquet Island, Northumberland Coast, UK
- Source: CarnyxWild
- Info: Live streaming puffin webcam at a seabird sanctuary on Coquet Island, off the coast of Northumberland in England. Puffins spend most of their lives at sea, only coming ashore to mate and nest.
More info: Puffins arrive on the waters around Coquet Island, towards the end of March.
Coquet Island has been an RSPB nature reserve since 1970 and is a site of Special Scientific Interest and therefore protected all year round.
Puffins arrive on the waters around Coquet Island, towards the end of March and will leave the island along with their pufflings, at the end of July.
Puffins excavate a nesting burrow in the soil but where burrowing is not possible, the birds nest under boulders or in cracks and cavities in cliffs. Puffins lay a single egg which is incubated by both parents for 36 to 45 days. The fledging period is very variable, ranging from 34 to 60 days, depending on the area and year. Adult puffins desert their young shortly before they are ready to leave the nest.
Puffins eat mainly small fish, such as sand eels, herring, hake and capelin.They have a modified tongue and a series of spines on the upper palate which enables them to take lots of fish at a time.