The Puffin

ISBN: 9781408108673 出版年：2011 页码：273 Mike P Harris Bloomsbury Publishing

With its colourful beak and fast, whirring flight, the Atlantic Puffin is the most recognisable and popular of all North Atlantic seabirds. Puffins speyear at sea, but for a few months of the year the come to shore, nesting in burrows on steep cliffs or on inaccessible islands. Awe-inspiring numbers of these birds can sometimes be seen bobbing on the sea or flying over the colony, bringing fish in their beachicks. However, the species has declined sharply over the last decadto a collapse caused by overfishing and global warming, combined with an exponential increase in Pipefish (which can kill the chicks).The Puffin is a revised and expanded second edition of Poyser's 1984 title on these endearing birds, widely considered classic. It includes sections on their affinities, nesting and incubation, movements, foraging ecology, survivorship, predation, and research methodology; particular attention is paid to conservation, with the species considered an important 'indicator' of the health of our coasts.