In spring and summer, visitors flock to Northern Ireland’s Rathlin Island to catch a glimpse of the bright-billed Atlantic puffins that stop there to breed. But in recent years, the island’s puffin population has plummeted, largely due to invasive ferrets and rats preying upon them. To protect the Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica), whose global population … Continue reading For threatened seabirds of NE Atlantic, climate change piles on the pressure