Puffins do this regularly, it is part of a fascinating array of postures and social behaviours, the accentuation of which probably lead them to evolve the bright legs, beak and coral-red eye ring that they are famous for. The shot showed a puffin standing in the sunlight and opening its beak. My first jarring moment came not with the pictures but with the sound, during a beautiful sequence of a puffin coming out of its burrow “a fisherman, a father and a mate for life”. When you step out of your room and hear guests in the living room #BluePlanet2 /6kKjpLlWzX Of course, a little of this is entirely justified, but what if this sleight of hand goes too far? In the current era of ‘fake news’, I wanted to explore this. I was asked to report on the episode from an expert point of view and to my horror, I began to notice the sleight of hand used to turn a collection of footage from the every-day existence of animals into epic stories that grab our attention. However, this week I had been asked to review the episode for Nature Ecology and Evolution and so I watched it with a new, dare I say it, critical, eye. I was not disappointed with this week’s coasts episode – puffins flying under rainbows, anemones with indigestion and shearing waves casting the outline of a chess knight. So normally I watch Blue Planet II already loving it before it even starts. I’m now a seabirdĬonservation scientist with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and I have worked with on conservation projects for seabirds, including puffins. Me confidence to go out myself and start looking for it.
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I grew up seeing snippets of nature’s soap opera going on on my TV and it gave You can count me as a BBC Natural History program superfan.
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