asjennifer barton as jennifer barton reports asjennifer barton reports from the farne islands off the. surrounded by the rich waters of the north sea, the rocky islands are home to thousands of them, and every five years national trust rangers carry out the painstaking three months task of counting every single one, investigating each burrow for signs of life. it is easy to see why the puffin is one of her favourite sea birds, they are colourful and charismatic but also under threat. the atlantic puffin is on the red list of threatened species, meaning globally it is a danger of extinction. over the last decade numbers have dropped by thousands and it's thought climate change could be to blame as warming seas affect affect their main source of food, sand eels. in some places the sand eels are moving north which means the puffins have to forage a lot further away to find food. we basically think that increased storm events mean increased mortality events which really affects the population. we have been on quite a whisky journey here in scotland seeing the barley in the fields and the