Puffins, Predator, and Pirates

Complete Record: This biological study gives striking evidence of how an alteration in the natural balance of an ecosystem can be a threat to one of the concerned species, in this example of an ecosystem can be a threat to one of the concerned specie, in this example of the North Atlantic Puffin. Herring Gulls, a species which preys on puffin eggs and young are multiplying in the area at an astounding rate due to the higher availability of food in the increased sewage and fish offal pouring into coastal waters and the higher reproductive rate (three eggs per nest to the one per nest of puffins.) Unless some way is found to limit the gulls, the puffins may be exterminated.