{"id":530419,"date":"2026-04-14T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530419\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:32:09","slug":"two-puffins-rescued-after-storm-chandra-return-to-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530419\/","title":{"rendered":"Two puffins rescued after Storm Chandra return to wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

The positive news came after thousands of seabirds washed up dead across Europe<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Dozens of the puffins had washed up on beaches across Scotland – about 1,000 miles from their winter home in the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n

When large numbers of birds wash up dead or dying on beaches, usually due to winter storms, it is a natural phenomenon called a wreck. <\/p>\n

Bird Life International has said the incident could be the worst “seabird wreck” to hit Europe in a decade.<\/p>\n

Emily Burton, conservation manager at the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick, previously told BBC Scotland News<\/a> that puffins were already facing “huge pressures” caused by climate change.<\/p>\n

She said: “Puffins only return to land for a short period each year to breed, spending most of their lives out at sea, so finding them washed up on our beaches in winter is concerning.<\/p>\n

“Seabirds can struggle to survive during periods of stormy weather, as it makes it harder for them to feed.<\/p>\n

“Changes to our oceans driven by the climate crisis, threats from disease, and unsustainable fishing practices can all reduce food availability or contribute to these tragic mortalities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The positive news came after thousands of seabirds washed up dead across Europe earlier this year. Dozens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-530419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530419","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=530419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}