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Birdwatch: the paradoxical puffin – a comical bird with a fighting spirit
Despite their size and gentle appearance, puffins will fight to keep their catch of sand eels from an opportunistic gull Few birds are as paradoxical as the puffin. It rivals the robin as Britain’s best-loved bird, yet most people have never seen one in the flesh. In spring and summer, they gather in large, noisy colonies to breed, but spend the autumn and winter far out to sea in the North Atlantic. And despite…