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26-01-2023, 07:34 PM
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The puffin arrives exhausted to the Canary coasts.
Pushed by the storm Fien they leave their habitat and are dying on the islands
History has been repeating itself over the past few weeks. The arrival of dead puffins to the Canary Islands are counted by dozens, even hundreds, of striking birds whose natural habitat is very far from the Islands. This type of bird comes to be confused with shearwaters.
It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the friar's ball and the horned puffin, are found in the Pacific Northeast. The Atlantic puffin breeds in Iceland, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland and many islands in the North Atlantic. In the south and west, its activity reaches as far as Maine and the British Isles in the east.
But why are dead puffins arriving in the Canary Islands? The fault lies with the storm Fien. That front of polar cold, snow and wind has pushed the puffins to latitudes much further south. Most arrive so exhausted that they end up dying on the Canary coasts, although some, like the one in the following video, recorded in El Porís, in Tenerife, manage to stay alive.
Upon arrival in the Canary Islands, the puffins are subjected, in case of arriving dead, to autopsies by the Government of the Canary Islands, to analyze the reasons for death and check whether or not they are carriers of diseases such as avian flu.
It is true that in previous years there had been sporadic arrivals, but the storm Fien has multiplied the number of these animals that, tired, arrive almost dead in the Canary Islands.
link to article for pic
The puffin arrives exhausted to the Canary coasts.
Pushed by the storm Fien they leave their habitat and are dying on the islands
History has been repeating itself over the past few weeks. The arrival of dead puffins to the Canary Islands are counted by dozens, even hundreds, of striking birds whose natural habitat is very far from the Islands. This type of bird comes to be confused with shearwaters.
It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the friar's ball and the horned puffin, are found in the Pacific Northeast. The Atlantic puffin breeds in Iceland, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland and many islands in the North Atlantic. In the south and west, its activity reaches as far as Maine and the British Isles in the east.
But why are dead puffins arriving in the Canary Islands? The fault lies with the storm Fien. That front of polar cold, snow and wind has pushed the puffins to latitudes much further south. Most arrive so exhausted that they end up dying on the Canary coasts, although some, like the one in the following video, recorded in El Porís, in Tenerife, manage to stay alive.
Upon arrival in the Canary Islands, the puffins are subjected, in case of arriving dead, to autopsies by the Government of the Canary Islands, to analyze the reasons for death and check whether or not they are carriers of diseases such as avian flu.
It is true that in previous years there had been sporadic arrivals, but the storm Fien has multiplied the number of these animals that, tired, arrive almost dead in the Canary Islands.
link to article for pic