Linda Waters, A world away and up close (ANIMAL & NATURE 2024)

Atlantic Puffins stay at sea most the year and only come to land to breed. This colony of birds at the easternmost tip of North America were photographed busily fishing, feeding their young and couples renewing their bonds by beak rattling. I couldn't be further from home and living the dream of seeing these 'clowns of the sea'.

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