The Leucomel Puffin, This Strange Bird that Takes the Sky for Places of Trouble

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By studying a colony of marine birds, two scientists have discovered, by chance, that this species often dumps its guano in flight. Never seen behaviour, no doubt because the birds off the sea are not well knownThe leucomel puffin has a sense of cleanliness. This large Pacific marine bird – up to 1.2 metres wide – hates to drop its excrement where it swims. This is what has been found, in the vicinity of a Japanese island where they are numerous…