14 DAY TRIAL // Throughout the following three months, 10 greenheads are to spend most of their time tracking down puffins on the Farne Islands, UK and counting them.
Such puffin censuses are carried out once every five years, their purpose being that of providing information about how changes in local weather conditions are affecting this species.
Presently, wildlife researchers are very much concerned about the fact that, according to the census carried out back in 2008, the overall headcount for the puffins inhabiting these regions has dropped by as much as a third. Daily Mail reports that the people in charge of carrying out this census are first and foremost interested in figuring out how many breeding pairs of puffins can presently be found on the Farne Islands.
Because of this, they will be inspecting a whopping 80,000 burrows, hoping to find either mama and papa puffins, or perhaps an egg.