A solar-powered sound system, designed by technical development officer Nigel Butcher, has now been installed on a cliff edge and puffin calls will be played on a three-hour loop at 7am, 12pm and 5pm.

Hear the puffin sound system in action. Video, 00:00:40 Hear the puffin sound system in action. Published. 28 April 2014. 0:40. Up Next. What's so special about Ramsey Island?

A sound system playing puffin calls is trying to lure the birds back to an island off the Pembrokeshire coast to breed after an absence of more than 100 years. BBC Homepage.

An arctic seabird seldom seen south of Puget Sound has been showing up in unusual numbers in Monterey Bay since May. Horned puffins, one of two species of puffin found on the West Coast, have been ...

The simulated colony (the lure of the decoys was enhanced by recordings of puffin sounds) spawned a real one. And as puffins returned, other birds followed: three species of terns (Arctic, common ...

Even in the blind, the cacophony of birds swirling about obliterated all other sound. This year, ... Puffins began returning in 1977 and started breeding in 1981. In 2019, ...

"The puffin recording is a low growl, the sort of sound you'd expect to hear them make in their burrows." Mr Morgan said puffins disappeared off Ramsey when rats inhabited the island in the late ...