A Year in the Life of a Puffin

1. Why does the puffin have such impressive breeding plumage? 2. What is the second most common seabird in the UK? 3. Where do puffins mate? 4. How can you tell the age of a puffin? 5. Can puffins dig their own burrows or do they use ones made by rabbits? 6. Why do puffins fight? 7. Why do puffins open their beaks at each other? 8. What happens underground? 9. What happens once the egg has hatched? 10. How do puffins catch more than one fish at a time? 11. Who are the puffins main predators at the colony? 12. Why do puffins behave in such a comical way? 13. Why do puffins spend their time preening their feathers? 14. Do puffins need to drink freshwater? 15. Where do puffins go when they leave the colony? 16. What happens to puffins in the winter? 17. Why does a chick look so different to its parents? 18. How long does it take a chick to fledge?