“I’m about to throw this child puffin off a cliff,” says a captivating Icelandic lady named Asa Steinars. She smiles on the digicam, then she does it. Her video then reveals a bunch of individuals, together with kids, throwing child puffins off cliffs. Why, although?
Brief reply: Pufflings go away their nests in late summer time, however metropolis lights confuse a few of the birds and, as an alternative of heading to sea, they find yourself in human civilization. Locals accumulate the misplaced pufflings after which launch them—by tossing them off cliffs (don’t fear, the pufflings can fly).
“It’s Puffling season . . . in Vestmannaeyjar,” Steinars says. “We stayed up late and joined the locals within the search of Pufflings. It felt like they have been raining from the sky, [a] few of them simply dropped down proper in entrance of us.”
Steinars explains in her video caption that starvation drives the pufflings from their nests, they usually depend on the moon to navigate out to sea.
“[Some pufflings] confuse town lights with the moon and find yourself crashing into city the place they don’t have a lot likelihood to make it to the ocean on their very own,” she provides. “They’re in danger as a result of automobile visitors, cats and even simply find yourself ravenous. In order that’s the place the locals come to the rescue.”
Since this occurs yearly, Steinars says it’s develop into an annual custom for the locals of Vestmannaeyjar, which is an archipelago off Iceland’s south coast.
Watch individuals toss child puffins off cliffs right here:
What do you concentrate on this neighborhood custom?
