As part of our ad hoc Scotland’s Wonderful Wildlife series, Thom Quinn describes a consequential meeting with a puffin, a bird with a punk-rock streak ...

Smallest of the four puffin species, they have come en masse to breed on Britain’s rumpled islands and coasts, the more remote, unpeopled, and predator free, the better. No one is certain ...

puffin jaws are more manoeuvrable and can grip fish front to back with equal pressure. When swimming underwater with fish in their mouths you’d think they’d lose the fish they had already ...