Puffin
A funny little fellow in his glossy black dinner jacket and crisp white bib, the puffin is instantly recognisable from its brightly coloured parrot-like bill. Puffins use their colourful bill to…
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Skomer Island
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With nearly 350,000 breeding pairs of Manx Shearwaters, over 41,500 Puffins, thousands of Guillemots, Razorbills and Kittiwakes and hundreds of Fulmars, Skomer is an internationally important…
Local Wildlife Sites
Local Wildlife Sites are areas of land especially important for their wildlife. They are some of our most valuable wildlife areas.
Where to see puffins
Catch the comical puffin on a memorable day out to a seabird island. Puffins nest on UK clifftops every summer to rejoin their mates, breeding and rearing their young, floating in rafts, and fishing out at sea.
Skokholm Island
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Famed for its Manx Shearwaters and Storm Petrels, Skokholm Island is a truly wild island off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
Looe Island
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An island whose surrounding waters are teeming with life
Skokholm Island
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An island reserve with an unusually varied population of rabbits
Cardigan Island
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An island consisting of maritime cliff, slope and grassland plateau
Foulney Island
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Arctic and little tern breed on this island nature reserve during the summer whilst in autumn and winter it's a great site to see waders.
St Margaret's Island
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A beautiful Island situated near Tenby, off the western tip of Caldey Island.
White Island
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This small uninhabited island lying on the northwest side of St Martin’s is important for its geology, maritime heathland, grassland and breeding seabirds.
Brownsea Island
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Dorset Wildlife Trust manages 100 hectares of land on the northern side of Brownsea Island in partnership with the National Trust. The brand new Lookout wildlife observatory and two bird hides…