{"id":472187,"date":"2026-03-12T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472187\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:26:07","slug":"rescued-puffin-released-back-into-wild-at-rspb-bempton-cliffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472187\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued puffin released back into wild at RSPB Bempton Cliffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Commenting on when the puffin was found, Rummery said: &#8220;It was pretty much exhausted, so had a couple of months in the care of a wonderful lady called Caron, and then we were contacted to see if it would be possible to bring the bird over for release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The puffins have started to return for the season, so it seemed like a good opportunity to release it when there were other birds present as well,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gq2xk0vn9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RSPB said storms and bad weather<\/a> could have caused the deaths of dozens of puffins washed up on beaches in nort-east England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rummery said: &#8220;With recent storms there has been a lot of puffins washing up, so it&#8217;s good this one was found and rehabilitated and we could reintroduce it back into a colony and into the wild for it to find its own way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the RSPB, puffins spend the winter months out at sea before returning to nest in burrows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bempton is home to the UK&#8217;s largest mainland seabird colony, with more than 500,000 birds, including about 3,000 puffins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commenting on when the puffin was found, Rummery said: &#8220;It was pretty much exhausted, so had a couple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-472187","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\/472187","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=472187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}