Its nests are in burrows. However, any recent decline seems to be relatively small. It is a bird that attracts attention and affection, having a vaguely comic air and being relatively approachable at its nesting sites. In Shetland its image is everywhere. In the Faeroe Islands, where the inhabitants have a more immediate tradition of surviving on anything and everything the seas and their inhospitable islands have to offer, the puffin is still regarded, more than anything else, as food.
Puffins are still abundant there.
Photographs at Hermaness, Shetland, 1995.