A common summer visitor to Svalbard is the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis). They nest on bare open ground, close to the coast, as this view at Ny-Ålesund, northwest Spitsbergen, shows. Their young are vulnerable to predation by foxes. |
A common summer visitor to Svalbard is the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis). They nest on bare open ground, close to the coast, as this view at Ny-Ålesund, northwest Spitsbergen, shows. Their young are vulnerable to predation by foxes. |