Puffins in love Courtship Behaviour - a photo on Flickriver

            Puffins mating and courtship ritual, the puffins will pair up before they come onto land from the sea. Once they are on land, the pair may perform billing, a behaviour where puffins rub their beaks together. There numbers are falling because of global warming and this year bird flue.
   

Taken on: May 22, 2011

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