Though by Breton's reckoning there had been ten documentaries about the birds and Project Puffin already--including shows aired on the National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Channel's Animal Planet--he felt there was more of the story to be told.

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Part of the issue with the puffin hunting season is that the birds are now fetching a high price as a culinary delicacy.

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More distantly, I could make out sociable puffin chirrups: evening gossip from the birds in their nest-spots on the cliff.

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Keith Clarkson, regional reserves manager for the RSPB, said the puffin population was the hardest hit with more than 200 dead birds found.

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