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Common Murre @ Hornøya

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.

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7. April 2024

Varanger, Norway

When birds of prey fly past, all the auks instantly abandon their cliff, leading to a lot of chaotic sights like this one.

While I was on the island, the birds on the cliff flew off like this several times. And while it looked and sounded very chaotic (I mean, it's literally thousands of seabirds shouting and flying away in the sme direction, of course it's chaotic), they did seem quite synchronized and disciplined, and collisions are rare.

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