--- description: A moment from a BBC documentary title: Watch a Baby Puffin See the World for the First Time image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch a Baby Puffin See the World for the First Time  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Apr 28, 2016 6:01 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Apr 28, 2016 6:01 PM CUT BBC documentary makers visiting England’s Farne Islands pulled a baby puffin — known as a “puffling” — out of its burrow to “see the world for the first time” in a BBC Earth clip published Wednesday. “Puffins spend most of their lives at sea, but when they return to land, they become burrowers” to protect their young from predators like the “[great skua](http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Skua "undefined"),” the narrator says in footage shared on YouTube. Last year was a tough year for nearly [40,000 seabirds](http://the most recent puffin census "undefined") on the island, as heavy rains flooded their burrows, [according to](http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/farne-islands/features/wildlife-review-2015 "undefined") an annual review by National Trust, the U.K. conservation charity. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4311036/bbc-baby-puffin-sees-world-first-time/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4311036/bbc-baby-puffin-sees-world-first-time/"},"headline":"Watch a Baby Puffin See the World for the First Time","datePublished":"2016-04-28T18:01:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:56.157Z","description":"A moment from a BBC documentary","url":"https://time.com/4311036/bbc-baby-puffin-sees-world-first-time/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4311036/bbc-baby-puffin-sees-world-first-time/","name":"Watch a Baby Puffin See the World for the First Time"}}]}] ```