From Puffin Boy to Yi.

[Viking]

This is just so cute. I did this when I was smaller.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8358799.stm

[The Brain]

Unlike German politicians Icelandic kids know and understand English.

[Josquius]

And as Simon Hancock discovers, every night during the season hundreds of children gather during the evening to round up the lost puffins - then later,

What I expected to read next considering this is Iceland is 'Devour them'. Instead though we have

to release them back into the sea.

Eh?

[Viking]

You just let your prejudices get the better of you. We only eat non-nesting adult puffins.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yes, so the baby puffins are rescued......giving a nice feelgood factor, and then scoffed as adult birds a few years later 

[Viking]

Yes, so the baby puffins are rescued......giving a nice feelgood factor, and then scoffed as adult birds a few years later 

Yes and? The puffin traditions allow 6 million puffins to live on a 13 sq km large island with five thousand people without being wiped out.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I'm impressed that there are so many of them. The chief puffin colony in the UK used to be on Lundy, but the population has suffered a bad decline in recent years. This article I found seems to be placing the blame for that decline on rats :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2005/06/08/lundy_rats_feature.shtml

[Viking]

I'm impressed that there are so many of them. The chief puffin colony in the UK used to be on Lundy, but the population has suffered a bad decline in recent years. This article I found seems to be placing the blame for that decline on rats :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2005/06/08/lundy_rats_feature.shtml

Thats great to hear. Rats can't take the climate back at home so we don't have problems with them.

[Brazen]

I'm impressed that there are so many of them. The chief puffin colony in the UK used to be on Lundy, but the population has suffered a bad decline in recent years. This article I found seems to be placing the blame for that decline on rats :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2005/06/08/lundy_rats_feature.shtml

I got my puffin exposure on May Island, one of my favourite trips as a kid
http://www.isleofmayferry.com/home.asp

[Richard Hakluyt]

So it looks like rats may be the problem for puffins, rather than humans. I'm surprised it took them so long to work that out. I've been hearing about the declining puffin population on Lundy since I was a kid, nobody even mentioned that the island was infested with rats 

[Viking]

So it looks like rats may be the problem for puffins, rather than humans. I'm surprised it took them so long to work that out. I've been hearing about the declining puffin population on Lundy since I was a kid, nobody even mentioned that the island was infested with rats 

They nest in underground burrows. We could have wiped them out pretty quickly by just picking eggs.

[barkdreg]

I also watched the piece about the Japanese plastiv food. Those voice-overs are horrible.....

[Barrister]

I'm impressed that there are so many of them. The chief puffin colony in the UK used to be on Lundy, but the population has suffered a bad decline in recent years. This article I found seems to be placing the blame for that decline on rats :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2005/06/08/lundy_rats_feature.shtml

Thats great to hear. Rats can't take the climate back at home so we don't have problems with them.

We have more... direct means of taking care of rats in Alberta...

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex3441

[merithyn]

Yes, so the baby puffins are rescued......giving a nice feelgood factor, and then scoffed as adult birds a few years later 

Yes and? The puffin traditions allow 6 million puffins to live on a 13 sq km large island with five thousand people without being wiped out.

And the tradition is a wonderful way to teach kids to think about something other than themselves. It's a lovely tradition, Viking. Thank you for sharing this.