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Puffin tries to tie a knot, Fair Isle, Shetland Islands - Sep 2013
Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Mark Sisson (3029265a)
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Puffin Tries to Tie The Knot
This puffin looked like it was ready to tie the knot - literally.
Wildlife photographer Mark Sisson captured the seabird appearing to try to thread a piece of discarded string - and succeeding!
The images show the puffin picking up a bit of old fishing nylon and manipulating it with its beak to fashion what is known as an overhand knot.
Mark shot the nimble-beaked bird on Fair Isle, a small island at the southern end of the Shetlands. He was taking pictures for his book The Secret Lives of Puffins, released this month.
Mark explains: "I was staying on Fair Isle, a small island at the southern end of the Shetlands, in late July last year to capture some last summer images for completing the book project that I was working on.
"This particular non-breeding bird just landed on the clifftop in front of me while I was photographing in an area they liked to visit, with this bit of string in its beak: puffins are inveterate fiddlers and love to examine anything unusual which this string clearly was for this bird.
"He wandered up and down for 5 minutes or so, constantly twisting it, putting it down and picking it up, changing its position in his beak and at one point it even seemed his efforts had tied a knot in it.
"Having achieved this he proceeded to take flight with the string still firmly in his beak."
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