For reasons not totally understood, puffin numbers here are increasing, the burrows full. Come August, the colony’s chicks reliably depart, waddling down the steep slopes to swim and fly away ...

If you love puffins, the unique-looking birds that often live on the cliffs of seaside communities, you may be interested in a usual Icelandic tradition that involves tracking down the puffin ...

Sadly for the puffins, they have to work a bit harder than that, and it’s down to the design of their beaks that they can take home these mouthfuls. Rather than working like a pair of scissors ...

Puffins dive into the water to catch their prey, usually within 30 metres of the water's surface but they can dive down to 60 ...