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Blomstrand bird cliff | 13 July 2014 |
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Kentaro Hayashi is a colleague from Japan. We have published a paper together on reindeer droppings. Next year we plan to study denitrification at sites affected by bird faeces. I want to show him a rich bird cliff at Blomstrand Island, the kittiwake colony where students of Claus Bech are working. The bird cliff is a steep climb over lush tundra vegetation. On the photo on the left, it is the green area on top enclosed by three steep cliff walls. |
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This is how the steep cliff looks when you are at the top. | Kittiwakes everywhere and a few fulmars. |
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Tired from the climb.... | ....but the view is spectacular. |
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An Arctic fox puppy passes.... | ...and starts to feed on a reindeer carcass. |
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The steep descent | |
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And just outside the influence of the bird cliff, there is hardly any vegetation. | I did take a picture of the both of us when returned home. All other pictures by Kentaro. |
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