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Yorkshire Puffin Festival 2024
Saturday 1 June and Sunday 2 June at Flamborough Cliffs nature reserve
Come and experience life on the very edge of Yorkshire!
Join us on Saturday 1st June and Sunday 2nd June at Flamborough Cliffs nature reserve for expert-led guided walks, boat trips and much more…
Yorkshire’s Flamborough Headland is one of the best places in the country to see puffins from land – as well as thousands of other seabirds. Experience the sights and sounds of our ‘seabird city’ through a fun-filled programme of events.
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Puffin Information Station
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Top puffin facts!
We've put together a list of our favourite puffin facts to introduce you to Yorkshire's most stylish and iconic seabird, the puffin!
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Brilliant beak
Puffins beaks (or bills) change colour throughout the year. In winter they're grey but during the breeding season they become bright and multi-coloured.
Favourite food
Sand eels! Puffins catch these small fish by diving and swimming under the waves. One puffin has been recorded carrying 83 sand eels in its beak at once.
A safe haven
Flamborough Head is a safe haven for puffins. Each summer, thousands of seabirds, including puffins, kittiwakes and razorbills, flock to Yorkshire to raise their young amongst the nooks and crannies of the steep cliffs.
Flying underwater
When swimming, puffins flap their wings as if they're flying through the water. They also use their feet like rudders, to gracefully 'fly' through the waves.
A puffin (Fratercula arctica) swims underwater. Puffins spend most of their lives at sea and are excellent underwater swimmers, which is how they catch small fish, their main food. They swimming is rather robotic to watch, with discret flaps of their wings and jerky changes in direction. Photographed in July 2011, Farne Islands, Northumberland. England, UK. North Sea. - Alexander Mustard/2020VISION
Dive into your puffin adventure...
Pick up, pack up and picket for puffins!
Puffins need our help: the global climate emergency, pollution and exploitation of our seas are all impacting on puffin population numbers. By making choices in our daily lives, we can all make a positive difference and help protect our wildlife and wild places - here's how:
Pick up
Marine pollution is one of the biggest threats to our seas health. Whether you have two minutes or an hour to spare, picking up litter is an active way that you can help puffins.
Pack up
Sadly 20,000 tonnes of plastic are dumped in the North Sea each year and 40% of plastic produced is just used once. Avoiding single-use plastics in your packed lunch is another great way to help puffins.
Picket
You can influence change by writing to your local MP about the issues that are important to you.
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