Puffins have been around for five million years
and survived ice ages. But experts say up to 90% of Britain’s favourite birds could be wiped out by 2050

The first time you see one, you can only shout for glee and excitement.

At the sight of the small fat darting shape flying surprisingly fast, with a massive multi-coloured beak and a look of amusement in its curling eye, you let fly one of the most pleasing words in the English language: ‘Puffin!’

Preacher, sea parrot, lundy, bottle nose, little friar, clown of the sea: you can tell how much humans love something by the nicknames we bestow on it.

And there is perhaps no bird of the air or beast of the field that we love half so much as Fratercula

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