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Adult herring gull looking straight at the camera, with a stern look on her face. Another gull is standing out of focus in front of her, and the background is a blue-ish out of focus color.

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.

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.

Near-adult great black-backed gull standing on a rocky coastline, blending in well with its environment. The GBBG is a large gull, with pink feet and black wings, and this indivisual still has some white/brown juvenile feathers left on the wings.

Portrait of a puffin, sitting in green bushes, looking straight at the camera, with blurry aqua sea in the background.

Portrait of a black-legged kittiwake, photographed from the chest upwards. The kittiwake is standing on the right side of the picture, looking towards the left, and the colors are a very cool aqua blue with contrasting yellow sunlight. The kittiwake has a white head, black eyes with a red ring around it, and a short bright yellow beak.

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Common Murre

Uria aalge

Common murres, also known as common guillemots, are a member of the auk family. Like most auks, they spend most of their life at sea, coming only to land to breed on tightly populated cliffs along the shoreline.

They live in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, and here in Norway they're found on bird cliffs from Runde on the west coast until Hornøya in the north.

Common murres and thick-billed murres are some of my all-time favorite birds.

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Telezoom portrait of two common murres cuddling and preening eachother, with murres blurred out in the foreground and background

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.

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.

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European Herring Gull

Larus argentatus

European herring gulls are large gull found along the coasts of Europe. In Norway they're found across the entire country, and many herring gulls inhabit our cities.

Despite seeming plentiful in urban areas, they are redlisted and considered a vulnerable species here in Norway, where their population has reduced with around 40% the past 3 generations. In the Oslo fjord, their numbers have halved since 2001.

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Portrait of a European Herring Gull in a snow storm. The picture is zoomed in on his face, the background is an out of focus hazy dark purple/gray, and there's snow falling around the gull. He's in adult winter plumage, white body with gray stripes on the head and around the eyes.

Adult herring gull in breeding plummage, looking at the camera, with snow falling around her.

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Finnmark

Pictures taken in Finnmark, the most northern region of mainland Norway.

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White-tailed eagle sitting on a rock, in front of other rocks. The rocks are covered in moss, and cast a blue-ish shadow in the background. The eagle has a white tail, huge yellow beak, and big white claws. The body is brown, and has white spots on the face.

Wooden shed that's falling apart, by a lake surrounded by green grass, and the fjord in the background. The mountains and sky in the background are different shades of blue. The foreground consists of different greens and oranges in the grass.

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