BirdsBirds were our regular companions, both during our field trips, and in settlements on Svalbard |
Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis; JA) | Northern fulmar and Conwaybreen (JA) | Purple sandpiper (Ny Ĺlesund; MH) | Purple sandpiper (Longyearbyen; JA) |
Purple sandpiper (Edgeřya; JA) | Barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis; JA) | Barnacle geese and chicks at Ny-Ĺlesund (MH) | Brünnich's guillemots (Uria lomvia), Alkefjellet (JA) |
Colony of Brünnich's guillemots, Alkefjellet (JA) | Brünnich's guillemot, Alkefjellet (JA) | Black guillemot (Cepphus grylle), Alkefjellet (JA) | Colony of Little auks (Alle alle), Bellsund (JA) |
Little auk, Bellsund (JA) | Little auk, Bellsund (JA) | Little auks, Bellsund (JA) | Common eiders (Somateria mollissima), Hornsund (JA) |
Glaucous gull in flight (Larus hyperboreus; JA) | Glaucous gull after touchdown (JA) | Gulls in front of Kronebreen (JA) | Young snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), Edgeřya (JA) |
Kittiwake hunting (Rissa tridactyla; JA) | Kittiwake on blue ice (JA) | Kittiwake with chick, Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) on the left (JA) | Arctic tern breeding (Sterna paradisaea; JA) |
Nest and egg (arctic tern; JA) | Arctic tern, hunting (MH) | Making a splash (MH) | Before touchdown (JA) |
Not everyone is equal (JA) | To fend off attacking terns... (JA) | Feather and saxifrage (JA) | Where there is so much life... (JA) |
…there is also death (JA) | Arctic tern on iceberg near Ny-Ĺlesund (MH) | | |
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