When electricity was introduced to the craggy Icelandic archipelago of Vestmannaeyjar, puffins, who navigate using moonlight, became confused and followed the artificial lights inland. So every summer, young people search for pufflings—baby puffins, who are still getting used to flying—and carry them to the sea, where they belong. Watch a new short documentary about the fledglings and the teens who rescue them: http://nyer.cm/WoUugXf | The New Yorker

Footage show Icelanders helping help baby puffins take flight and start migration - by throwing them off a cliff. The practice takes place every year at the end of summer in the Westman Islands, an archipelago off Iceland’s south coast. Puffins only occupy the islands in the summer and migrate out to sea in August and September following the moon. The new hatchlings drop from their burrows on cliffs to kick-start their flight but lights from the archipelago's main town Vestmannaeyjabær confuse t

Send this to the person you want to throw Baby puffins with 😂 This was actually one of the coolest things I we did in Iceland. But Let me explain Every summer in the Westman Islands, baby pufflings fly out to sea following the moonlight, but in the last decade or so they have been flying towards the city lights and they crash land in the town. Now, Local icleanders rescue them at night in cardboard boxes, take them home and then release them back to the sea the next day. I never thought I’d be

Locals in Iceland are spending nights scooping up baby puffins, and mornings tossing them off cliffs! 🐧 And by doing this, the Puffling Patrol members are actually saving them. 💜 📸 Nature on PBS / National Geographic / CBC P.S. there’s a full video on this tradition by @pbsnature on YT that I highly recommend - well worth the 12 minutes! #puffins #iceland #wildlife #rescue #community #birds #conservation #westmanislands #pufflings | That Good News Girl