{"id":454797,"date":"2022-05-29T12:31:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T09:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/decline-in-north-sea-puffins-causes-concern\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T12:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T09:31:40","slug":"decline-in-north-sea-puffins-causes-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/decline-in-north-sea-puffins-causes-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"#Decline in North Sea puffins causes concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4cf63f4b5e9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4cf63f4b5e9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/decline-in-north-sea-puffins-causes-concern\/#%E2%80%9CDecline_in_North_Sea_puffins_causes_concern%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Decline in North Sea puffins causes concern&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDecline_in_North_Sea_puffins_causes_concern%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Decline in North Sea puffins causes concern&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/puffins-are-one-of-the.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/puffins-are-one-of-the.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Puffins are one of the most distinctive visitors to the Isle of May nature reserve off the east coast of Scotland.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/puffins-are-one-of-the.jpg\" alt=\"Puffins are one of the most distinctive visitors to the Isle of May nature reserve off the east coast of Scotland\" title=\"Puffins are one of the most distinctive visitors to the Isle of May nature reserve off the east coast of Scotland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Puffins are one of the most distinctive visitors to the Isle of May nature reserve off the east coast of Scotland.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Isle of May, off Scotland&#8217;s east coast, is home to one of the UK&#8217;s biggest colonies of seabirds. Some 200,000 birds, from kittiwakes to guillemots can flock to the rocky outcrop at the height of the breeding season.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-banner first-banner ads-336x280\">\n         <!-- \/4988204\/Phys_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>But conservationists are concerned about dwindling numbers of one of the island&#8217;s most distinctive visitors\u2014the Atlantic puffin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The population was really booming in the 80s and 90s and then suddenly, a crash,&#8221; David Steel, a manager at the nature reserve, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We lost nearly 30 percent of all puffins in the mid-2000s and since then the population has slowly increased but nothing compared to what it used to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just over 50 miles (80 kilometers) down the coast on the Farne Islands, off Northumberland in northeast England, there are similar concerns.<\/p>\n<p>In both places, global warming, high winds, rains, coastal erosion, pollution and overfishing of its favored food\u2014sand eels\u2014is being blamed for dwindling numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Climate change is having a big effect with prey items in the sea,&#8221; affecting sand eels which feed on plankton in the North Sea, said Steel. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plankton is moving north as the sea temperature increases. So if there are less sand eels the puffins are going to struggle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Census<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On a meadow on one of the Farne Islands, rangers slowly slide their arms into narrow sandy burrows, searching for signs of nesting pairs of puffins, which are known locally as &#8220;tommy noddies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Quite often you will get a bit of a nip, which is a good sign because it means then that the burrow is occupied,&#8221; said one of the rangers, Rosie Parsons.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/conservationists-say-n.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/conservationists-say-n.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Conservationists say numbers on the island, and down the coast on the Farne Islands, have declined in recent years.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/conservationists-say-n.jpg\" alt=\"Conservationists say numbers on the island, and down the coast on the Farne Islands, have declined in recent years\" title=\"Conservationists say numbers on the island, and down the coast on the Farne Islands, have declined in recent years.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                Conservationists say numbers on the island, and down the coast on the Farne Islands, have declined in recent years.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2015, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature gave puffins &#8220;vulnerable&#8221; status, after large declines over much of their European range.<\/p>\n<p>Rising sea temperatures have caused sand eels to move north to cooler waters, forcing the birds to follow but where more extreme weather can be fatal for them.  <\/p>\n<p>The traditional enemies of puffins, which grow to just under 30 centimeters (one foot) tall and weigh around 450 grams (around a pound), are seagulls and seals.<\/p>\n<p>Puffins mate for life and lay a single egg in April or May. <\/p>\n<p>Due to their low reproductive rate, populations can take decades to recover from a sudden knock.<\/p>\n<p>A full puffin census is being carried out on the Farne Islands and the Isle of May this year.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns were raised last year when a limited count recorded 36,211 breeding pairs across four of the Farne Islands compared to 42,474 pairs in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Puffin numbers on the islands peaked at 55,674 pairs in 2003 before a sudden crash to 36,835 in 2008 a due to an extremely low number of sand eels.<\/p>\n<p>Zoologist Richard Bevan, from Newcastle University, hopes the resumed annual count will provide a more accurate estimate of puffins on the islands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up until 2018 surveys were done on the Farnes every five years, which means you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening in the four years in between,&#8221; he told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Before 2018, teams of researchers would check every burrow they came across on an island and form an estimate from that.<\/p>\n<p>The university then found a way to subsample to form an accurate estimate of the population. This has sped up the count and made the task far less arduous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/in-both-places-a-censu.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/in-both-places-a-censu.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"In both places, a census is taking place to determine the extent of the decline, which has been blamed on rising sea temperatures and other environmental factors.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/in-both-places-a-censu.jpg\" alt=\"In both places, a census is taking place to determine the extent of the decline, which has been blamed on rising sea temperature\" title=\"In both places, a census is taking place to determine the extent of the decline, which has been blamed on rising sea temperatures and other environmental factors.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                In both places, a census is taking place to determine the extent of the decline, which has been blamed on rising sea temperatures and other environmental factors.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Concern<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Measuring puffin numbers is difficult, said Bevan.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it will be easy to spot one of the birds, returning to nests with a sand eel clamped in its beak, but puffins are often underground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Often the only way to do it is to stick your arm into a burrow and check,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The 2022 census will give scientists a picture of how the puffin population is being affected by factors such as climate change and local changes in sand eel availability, Bevan says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking at the data, it is worrying to see that over the last four years we have seen a downward trend,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, these are data for a short time period and compared to the population counts in the early 1990s they are still reasonable numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although there is not an im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te danger of the puffins becoming extinct, the fact that their numbers are falling &#8220;triggers concern&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a declining population you have to keep your eye on it to make sure that doesn&#8217;t continue,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it does continue we have to be aware of the factors that contribute to it and how we can ameliorate those.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            Nothing funny about bad year for Maine&#8217;s clownish puffins\n                                        <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 AFP<\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 Decline in North Sea puffins causes concern (2022, May 29)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved 29 May 2022<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/phys.org\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2022-05-decline-north-sea-puffins.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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