Sand eels are a vital source of food for seabirds that live along the UK coastline, including the internationally important ...

In the British Isles, where puffins have not been hunted for a century (puffin hunting remains legal in Iceland), the seven-inch-tall birds can be ... to be upsetting the food chain.

Some colony declines are linked to lack of food availability to breeding birds but it is conditions in the wintering areas that are now believed to be most critical for long-term health of puffin ...