LIVE PUFFIN WEBCAM ON SKOMER ISLAND
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- Location: Skomer Island, Off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Source: The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales
- Info: Live streaming puffin webcam in Wales. The webcam shows a large colony of puffins on Skomer Island in Pembrokeshire. Puffins breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands and build nests in crevices among rocks or in burrows.
More info: Skomer Island together with its neighbouur Stokholm Island, forms the largest breeding Puffin colony in Southern Britain. The island is isolated from the mainland and has no ground predators and so provides a safe haven for breeding puffins.
Apart from the puffins the island is host to a vast array of wildlife including the largest colony of breeding Manx Shearwater. The ledges and clifftops are home to razorbills and guillemots and the gull family is represented by herring gulls, kittiwakes, lesser and greater black headed gulls. There are fulmars, gannets, shags and cormorants as well as birds of prey including peregrine falcons and buzzards.
Skomer Island also provides an important stop over for migrating birds such as wheatears, swallows and sedge warblers.