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Sat 07 Jul 2010Keeping track of species eruption - and disruption
ANOTHER LIFE:IRELAND'S MULTITUDE of puffins have almost finished their season on the islands off the west and south. There have been months of whirring flight, back and forth from the cliffs to the sea, and thousands of dives for prey, wings thrusting beneath the water.
Each pair of birds have taken turns to hatch a single chick, and both have fed it for six weeks or so, dropping the catch in the nesting burrow underneath the sea pinks. They leave the chick to fast for a final week and then to find its own way to the sea.
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