BirdsBirds were our regular companions, both during our field trips, and in settlements on Svalbard |
![Birds Birds](icons/fulmar_front.jpg) Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis; JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/fulmar_glacier.jpg) Northern fulmar and Conwaybreen (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/purple_sandpiper.jpg) Purple sandpiper (Ny Ĺlesund; MH) | ![Birds Birds](icons/purple_sandpiper_rocks.jpg) Purple sandpiper (Longyearbyen; JA) |
![Birds Birds](icons/purple_sandpiper_on_rock.jpg) Purple sandpiper (Edgeřya; JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/barnacle_geese.jpg) Barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis; JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/barnacle_geeese_and_chicks.jpg) Barnacle geese and chicks at Ny-Ĺlesund (MH) | ![Birds Birds](icons/lummen_gruppe.jpg) Brünnich's guillemots (Uria lomvia), Alkefjellet (JA) |
![Birds Birds](icons/lummen_alkenfjellet.jpg) Colony of Brünnich's guillemots, Alkefjellet (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/lumme_allein.jpg) Brünnich's guillemot, Alkefjellet (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/black_guillemot.jpg) Black guillemot (Cepphus grylle), Alkefjellet (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/little_auk_colony.jpg) Colony of Little auks (Alle alle), Bellsund (JA) |
![Birds Birds](icons/little_auk_portrait.jpg) Little auk, Bellsund (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/little_auk_wings.jpg) Little auk, Bellsund (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/little_auk_vier.jpg) Little auks, Bellsund (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/eider_ducks.jpg) Common eiders (Somateria mollissima), Hornsund (JA) |
![Birds Birds](icons/flight.jpg) Glaucous gull in flight (Larus hyperboreus; JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/glaucous_gull_wings.jpg) Glaucous gull after touchdown (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/gull_iceberg.jpg) Gulls in front of Kronebreen (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/snow_bunting.jpg) Young snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), Edgeřya (JA) |
![Birds Birds](icons/kittiwake.jpg) Kittiwake hunting (Rissa tridactyla; JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/kittiwake_blue_ice.jpg) Kittiwake on blue ice (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/kittiwake_chick.jpg) Kittiwake with chick, Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) on the left (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/tern_breeding.jpg) Arctic tern breeding (Sterna paradisaea; JA) |
![Birds Birds](icons/tern_egg.jpg) Nest and egg (arctic tern; JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/tern_look_down.jpg) Arctic tern, hunting (MH) | ![Birds Birds](icons/tern_splash.jpg) Making a splash (MH) | ![Birds Birds](icons/tern_landing.jpg) Before touchdown (JA) |
![Birds Birds](icons/terns_unequal.jpg) Not everyone is equal (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/tern_attack.jpg) To fend off attacking terns... (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/feather.jpg) Feather and saxifrage (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/gulls_swarm.jpg) Where there is so much life... (JA) |
![Birds Birds](icons/gull_dead.jpg) …there is also death (JA) | ![Birds Birds](icons/tern_on_berg_2001.jpg) Arctic tern on iceberg near Ny-Ĺlesund (MH) | | |
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