Collection: Clumsy birds Nature, wildlife, and bird photography by Sarah Fossheim 🌿 2025-02-05T00:00:00.000Z https://fossheim.photography/collections/behavior-clumsy Sarah L. Fossheim hi@fossheim.photography photo: Photobombing shag 2024-11-12T00:00:00.000Z https://fossheim.photography/photos/catalog/2024/2024-04-07-hornoya/photobombing-shag"

I was taking a picture of this family of common murres/common guillemots (Uria aalge) posing while more auks flew by at Hornøya, when a European Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) crashlanded in the snow right in front of me, creating this dramatic portrait.

Picture taken at Hornøya, by Vardø in the north of Norway.

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Razorbills (Alca torda) at Hornøya.

The razorbill on the left is actually just making a landing. But the postures and facial expressions of all of them made it seem as if he clumsely fell off the cliff while his friends were laughing at him.

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