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Puffin

Apparently puffins can dislocate their beak so as not to slice the fish they carry in half and lose any. It seems to work - I count eight sand-eels in this puffins mouth!

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Photograph Location:  Skomer, Wales
Keywords:  Wildlife, Birds, Waterfowl
Camera settings:  Canon EOS 20D. 1/1000s. f/5.6. ISO400. Focal length 160mm

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