FOOTAGE from Burhou’s puffin camera will be streamed live on the internet from the end of this month.

Set up by the Alderney Wildlife Trust and sponsored by Airtel-Vodafone, the States of Alderney and South East Grid for Learning, the camera will allow the public to view Burhou’s puffins and help with educational and scientific research.

Puffin cam will be available through the trust’s website when the birds return.

Trust manager Roland Gauvain said: ‘For the last five years AWT has led research into the bird populations on Burhou, which sits in the heart of Alderney’s Ramsar site.

‘Puffin cam’s unique combination of both live feed camera and remote download camera with video streams uploaded onto the website – covering not only daytime puffin activity but nocturnal storm petrel and puffin comings and goings – provides massive scope for education and scientific research.’

Mr Gauvain believes the birds may act differently without human presence.

‘Each year AWT’s researchers, working closely with groups including the Channel Islands Bird Ringers and RSPB, spend hundreds of hours observing the comings and goings, but human presence itself can be very disturbing to such small populations of birds.’