The National Parks and Wildlife Service has said that there is evidence to suggest that puffins have left Skellig Michael early this year, but they don't know why.
THE NATIONAL PARKS and Wildlife Service has said that there is evidence to suggest that puffins have left Skellig Michael early this year, but they don’t know why.
In a statement, it said that puffins are known to leave the island each year in late July and early August. “It’s only marginally early. You would expect puffins to leave around the first week of August, so maybe it’s a couple of days early, but not alarming, so I don’t think there’s any particular cause for concern from that fact alone,” he said.
Hatch said that puffins are a hard bird to monitor during the nesting season because unlike most other seabirds, who nest on open ground or on clifftops, they nest in burrows under the ground. “A one-year-old puffin looks the same as a 30 year old puffin, you can’t really tell us what age they are. Even if you’re seeing lots of adult puffins around, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re doing well reproductively, that chicks are surviving.”
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