Abstract Three severe gales in northern Britain between 26th November and 31st December 2021 resulted in a wreck of Puffins Fratercula arctica along the coasts of northeast Scotland, Orkney and Shetland. Of 532 corpses counted, 367 (69%) were adults. Data from the deployments of geolocators at colonies throughout the Northeast Atlantic predicted that there would have been 

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