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Puffin

Fratercula arctica

Species Account

Extract from Bird Report 1996

A very rare vagrant. 10 records 1946-1996.

A corpse was found at Millbrook Wood by a dog on 3rd March and thereafter resided in the recorder’s freezer to the year end (per DJ0). This was the first in the county since another dead specimen was found, at Woburn, on 17th February 1983.

Rarity status

Local Rarity

Birding sites where they have been recorded

We have not recorded this bird at any of our birding sites yet.

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