{"id":421900,"date":"2026-02-12T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421900\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:25:07","slug":"exhausted-puffins-washing-up-on-cornwall-beaches-after-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421900\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhausted puffins washing up on Cornwall beaches after storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Puffins exhausted from the recent storms have been washing up on beaches along Cornwall&#8217;s south coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cornwall Wildlife Trust&#8217;s Marine Strandings Network said 14 puffins have been found already in February, compared to two in the whole of 2025 and 15 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The weakened &#8211; and in some cases dead &#8211; puffins have been found on beaches in the Roseland peninsula, Falmouth, Penzance, the Lizard and Porthleven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jon Matthews, who helps to rehabilitate wild birds in Praa Sands, said the three puffins brought to him during the past week were &#8220;so weak&#8221; after they had been &#8220;battered by the storms and hadn&#8217;t been able to eat&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Puffins exhausted from the recent storms have been washing up on beaches along Cornwall&#8217;s south coast. Cornwall Wildlife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-421900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}