The puffins depart for 2019 after a good season here on Alderney. They will now be heading off into the Atlantic for the winter. Each puffin has its own specific journey, roughly followed each year and based on where it found fish on its first winter. Some travel great distances to the south of Iceland [...]
Watch the first video and see if you can spot the odd bird out from teh raft of puffins sitting on the sea just off Burhou. Scroll down to find out is you were right and see what the imposter is. Look closely at the shape of the birds! And here's the answer - did [...]
You will probably have noticed a big increase in activity from the puffins on the cameras from the last weeks of May onwards. This is because their chicks have hatched! After incubating their eggs for about 6 weeks the parents will finally have a little beak to feed. Puffins only ever have one puffling chick [...]
Activity increases as more birds arrive and parents take turns incubating eggs Activity on puffin cameras really picked up in the last week, with lots of puffins appearing on land, walking between the burrows and clumsily taking off to go out to sea and fish. You should hopefully have got a much clearer view of the [...]
The Burhou puffins lay their eggs By now some of the puffins will have laid eggs down in their burrows on Burhou. Both parents take turns incubating the egg for around 6 weeks – so there pufflings won’t be hatching until late May. On the cameras you may see the parents coming back and forth [...]
Welcome to the Alderney puffincams! These cameras will show you the daily lives of the puffins living on the islet of Burhou, just off the main island of Alderney. The puffins lay eggs in old rabbit burrows on land and rest and gather in groups, known as rafts, on the adjacent sea. Just a few [...]
