{"id":567778,"date":"2026-05-05T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567778\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:33:15","slug":"buoys-placed-in-herm-waters-to-help-protect-puffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567778\/","title":{"rendered":"Buoys placed in Herm waters to help protect puffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head of sustainability at Guernsey Ports, Lisa Duggan, said: &#8220;Puffins and other seabirds are very easily disturbed when they are rafting &#8211; so it is really important to keep a distance and slow down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Puffins return each year to the cliffs of Herm, an internationally recognised Ramsar site, to raise their offspring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Puffins mate for life and return to the same burrow to lay one single egg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once the egg has hatched, the parents leave the chick in the burrow whilst they forage at sea, primarily for sand eels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both adult puffins and newly fledged puffling chicks gather in groups on the water, known as rafts, to rest and socialise between feeding trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head of sustainability at Guernsey Ports, Lisa Duggan, said: &#8220;Puffins and other seabirds are very easily disturbed when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-567778","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\/567778","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=567778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}