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Hornøya

Pictures taken at Hornøya, an island by Vardø where almost 100,000 seabirds breed. Amongst them common murres, thick-billed murres, razorbills, shags, puffins, black-legged kittiwakes, great black-backed gulls, and herring gulls.

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Portrait of a puffin, hiding behind a grassy hill. The top of the head and eyes are in focus, the rest is hidden behind the green grass, which is saturated and blurry.
Common murre silhouette (chest upwards), with a blue sea full of blurry bokeh in the background.
Group of ca 15 common murres standing closely together on a sunny day. The picture is taken with a telezoom lens, showing them all chest up, focused on two cuddling murres in the middle.
Portrait of a puffin, sitting in green bushes, looking straight at the camera, with blurry aqua sea in the background.
Portrait of a bridled common murre standing in front of a teal/blue blurry background (out of focus ocean), photographed from the chest up. The belly is white, the back and head are very dark brown (but look black), medium-sized sharp gray beak. Around its eye is a white circle and line, resembling glsses. The bird eye is in focus, along with tiny water droplets on top of the head. Light cimes from the left behind of the murre.
Group of 10-15 murres tightly standing together on the side of a cliff, with the ocean in the background. The two murres in the middle are mounting eachother.
Portrait of a bridled common murre. In the foreground there's a green out of focus mossy rock, the background is the out of focus ocean.
European shag walking around with the skeleton of another european shag in its beak. He's walking right to left in the frame, and between grassy terrain.
Portrait of a common murre. In the foreground there's a muddy hill, and behind the main murre there's another one that's out of focus.
Portrait of a puffin, sitting in outside of its burrow, overlooking a bright aqua sea full of bokeh, photographed from the side. It's a really bright and sunny day, and the picture has light and vibrant colors, with a lot of feather detail.
European shag walking around with the skeleton of another european shag in its beak. He's walking right to left in the frame, and between grassy terrain.
Telezoom portrait of a common murre, with out-of-focud rocks in the foreground. The myrre has a black head with black beak, and white "glasses" around the eyes, and is looking straight at the camera
Hundereds of auks, mainly common murres (and a handful of puffins, razorbills, and gulls), flying past the camera. It's a blue sky with light clouds in the background, and the picture is taken with a telezoom lens, causing the birds in the foreground and background to be slightly in movement and out of focus.
Three common guillemots (uria aalge) posing in front of a white snowed in mountain, with more murres/guillemots flying in the background. It almost looks peaceful, except in the foreground a european shag (type of cormorant) is crash landing into the snow, in the most dramatic way possible.
Bridled common murre (with white eye ring) standing in front of a snowed in mountain.
Telezoom portrait of two common murres cuddling and preening eachother, with murres blurred out in the foreground and background
Common murres flying from the right to the left of the frame, against a bright aqua light sky
Two common murres in flight, photographed from right below them. The one on the right is flying lower, and is as a result bigger and out of focus. The one on the left is in focus, and the plumage of the underside of the body is well noticeable, with a black to white gradient.
Small in frame common murre peeking from the bottom right corner of the image, jusgt the beak and face are in view.
Common murres flying from the right to the left of the frame, against a bright aqua light sky
Two razorbills cuddling together in the snow, with a bright aqua sea in the background. The background is out of focus with a lot of bokeh, and the snow in the foreground creates a white haze. The razorbills are small black and white auks, and have a white vertical and horizontal line on their beak.
Two razorbills cuddling together in the snow, with a bright aqua sea in the background. The background is out of focus with a lot of bokeh, and the snow in the foreground creates a white haze. The razorbills are small black and white auks, and have a white vertical and horizontal line on their beak.
Two razorbills (black and white auks) cuddling in the snow. The razorbills are positioned in the bottom left corner of the frame, and the snowy hill in the foreground makes it so that just their black heads are visible, against a completely white background.
Silhouette of a common murre, overlooking a clear blue sky, while standing on a rock.
Two razorbills, small in frame, sitting on a rock in the bottom right corner of the image. In the background, thousands of auks (murres, razorbills, and puffins) take flight.
Razorbill sitting on a rock in front of a deep blue sea. The razorbill is a medium-small seabird of the auk family. Its belly is white, back and wings and head are black. They have a white vertical stripe on the beak and a white horizontal stripe right above the beak.
Group of around 20 common murres (black and white seabirds of the auk family) in flight, against a blue sky.
Common murre flying from right to left of the frame, with a fish in its beak. In the backgrpound are 5 other murres flying in the opposite direction, left to right. It's a sunny day with blue skies.
Portrait of a young european shag, looking directly at the camera. Its body feathers still have a brown-ish color, the patch on the chin is white, and the beak is yellow and black.
Black and white close-up of a shag preening its feathers, looking backwards touching feathers on the back.

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