Snap up the chance to save the puffin

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RSPB scientists need your help saving UK puffins

• Puffin numbers have plummeted in recent years with scientists estimating more than half the population will disappear within the next generation.
• Warming seas, caused by climate change, is impacting puffins’ food supply which is thought to be one of the main threats to their survival.
• Puffin experts at the RSPB are asking members of the public to play a pivotal role in saving the puffin by sharing their images of the charismatic seabird feeding their chicks.
• By combining the latest technology and citizen science RSPB scientists hope to uncover more about what puffins feed their chicks, their foraging habits and how their numbers are changing.

Read more at https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/rsp...pUmcTAtYkrp.99



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[rolf]

Wish I lived closer to a Puffin breeding area, would love to take part.

[Catherine]

Well, I hope to move to Retford soon, Rolf, and although it's not right next to Bempton, it's a lot closer than Reading, so you and Lulu would be very welcome to stay with me if you were going that way!

I am really hoping to go there again - and this time see the - Puffins which had just left the only time I was ever there!

* End of August latest estimate!

[rolf]

Thanks Catherine, have also found a nice Hotel up at flamborough next door now, so can always drop in on the way up and you can follow us up, although whether Lulu will be available, not sure, as I tend to take my trips last minute.

You're about a two hour drive away from Bempton.

[Catherine]

I think I checked it once - and maybe still a bit to go, but nearer than here or Reading!