up to one hundred thousand pairs of tufted popham gather in an area of some five hundred square meters they're called northern pirates because of the bright plumage. of each year we caption tag about a hundred birds it won't let me go now i'll have to open and speak it's ok it happens. i'm going to try and target now it's best to let them get back to their holes or else be taken far beyond the places where the other tufted puffins nest if one of these birds gets into a puffins nest on the island vita guess might well be killed by another puff and. we usually let them go by tossing him in to be air. which though it seems he doesn't want to fly today. these birds cannot take off from the ground which is why they look clumsy instead they use a steep slope as a launch pad tufted pathans feet in the open sea they dive to depths of up to one hundred meters and the hunt a small fry. quite often siegel snatch fish from tufted puffins that can't fly fast enough they swoop down on puffins to make them drop the fish and then they snatch it up in mid-air. sure and for know from both you laser and