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GLOBAL 3000 | No food, no offspring. Climate change has reached migratory birds in the North Sea

633 views · Published 27 August 2008 · 4:33 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: DW News · 2008 · Entertainment

Puffins are chubby, amusing, excellent flyers and something of a national symbol in Scotland. The islands off the Scottish coast are an important breeding ground for puffins and other sea birds.

But their chicks often fail to grow big enough to survive. The reason: their parents cannot find enough food and so they starve. In particular, the warming of the North Sea has meant sand eels have become scarc. Looking for evidence on the island of May.

GLOBAL 3000 | No food, no offspring. Climate change has reached migratory birds in the North Sea

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