puffin

A record number of puffins have been recorded on a small island off the Pembrokeshire coast, despite global populations declining rapidly.

"Safeguarding sandeel stocks is a key part of the jigsaw that will help set our puffins, kittiwakes and the wider marine environment on the path to recovery."

The Humber Estuary is a site of special scientific interest and along with Bempton Cliffs Nature Reserve supports more than half a million birds annually including pink footed geese, puffins, avocets and bar-tailed godwits.

One particularly striking photograph shows a gull eating a baby puffin.

But it is a favourite food of other fish species like cod and haddock, as well as threatened seabirds such as puffins and kittiwakes.