Pictures of Auks

Taken Around Spitsbergen (2007)

By far the most numerous birds around Spitsbergen are those of the auk family, which is why they get their own page here. You can get a larger version of an image by clicking on it.

Black guillemots (Gryllteisten), in the pack ice north of 80 degrees!

Puffin (Papageintaucher), also north of 80 degrees(!) on the left, little auk (Krabbentaucher) on the right.

Bruennich's guillemots (Dickschnabellummen), mostly taken at alkefjellet. Some of them like to pretend they're penguins.

15 July 2007