{"id":433438,"date":"2026-02-19T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433438\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:38:09","slug":"thousands-of-puffins-starve-to-death-during-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433438\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of puffins starve to death during storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The south west coast has been battered by storms since January with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3r192gg9n5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goretti<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce8gldd9zyyo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ingrid <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy8p2yey0gdo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chandra <\/a>all causing floods and devastation for both humans and wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roland Gauvain, the chief executive of AWT, said the Channel Islands had &#8220;so far been reasonably lucky&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said there had been a major seabird wreck (the term for a mass-mortality event) in 2014 when 54,000 birds were recorded washed up, of which about 30,000 to 36,000 were puffins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added colleagues in France had also collected data for Spain and Portugal and found thousands of dead seabirds had been recorded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It seems the wreck has reached over 10,000 at this point, though there is a lot of proving figures to be done. That&#8217;s probably an underestimate of what has been found so we&#8217;re looking at a major seabird wreck,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Puffins rely on their eyesight to hunt and need clear water to find food but rough seas had made it difficult for them to feed, Gauvain explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The south west coast has been battered by storms since January with Goretti, Ingrid and Chandra all causing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-433438","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\/433438","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=433438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}