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The little auk (Alle alle) is the smallest seabird in Greenland and weights only about 160 g.
It breeds in enormous colonies where the number of birds often exceed 100.000 birds gathered in one place.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: July 2004
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Image ID: soekonge_2133
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Location: Scoresbysund Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is with extremely long wings and very short legs adapted to living in the sky and not on the ground.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: July 2006
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Image ID: CEg_1994
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Location: Grønne Ejland Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
Nothern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis).
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Maj 2007
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Image ID: CEg_0013
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Location: Disko Bay Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
Sabine's gull (Larus sabini) is a rare bird in Greenland.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Juli 2007
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Image ID: CEg_8848
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Location: Northeast Greenland Original format: Digital, Canon RAW 3504 x 2336 pixels
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Remarks:
The ivory (Pagophila eburnea) is a true Arctic bird.
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Photographer: LWi
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Date: Aug. 2009
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Image ID: LW015012
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Location: Northeast Greenland Original format: Digital, Canon RAW 3504 x 2336 pixels
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Remarks:
Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia).
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Photographer: LWi
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Date: Juli 2006
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Image ID: LW007542
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Location: Thule area Original format: Digital, Canon RAW 3504 x 2336 pixels
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Remarks:
The kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is distributed in most of Greenland where it breeds on steep cliff sides.
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Photographer: LWi
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Date: Aug. 2006
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Image ID: LW007686
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Location: Thule Original format: jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
The Ross's gull (Rhodosthestia rosea) is extremely rare in Greenland and only few breeding sites are known in Greenland.
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Photographer: LWi
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Date: Juni 2004
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Image ID: LW001851
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Location: Grønne Ejland Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
The king eider (Somateria spectabilis) is a scarce breeder in North- and East Greenland but several
thousand birds from the Canadian breeding grounds congregate in the West Greenland area during Winter.
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Photographer: LWi
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Date: Feb. 2005
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Image ID: LW003124
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Location: Nuuk Original format: Digital, jpg 3504 x 2336 pixels
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The common eider (Somateria mollissima) breeds scattered over most of Greenland. Approximately 250.000 winters in the open water region of West Greenland.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Juli 2007
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Image ID: CEg_3989
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Location: Nuuk Original format: Digital, jpg 3888 x 2592 pixels
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Remarks:
The Atlantic puffin (Fratecula arctica) is not a common bird in Greenland - about 5000 pairs breed.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Juni 2002
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Image ID: lunde_1802
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Location: Grønne Ejland Original format: Digital, jpg 2048 x 1536 pixels
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Remarks:
The great shearwater (Puffinus gravis) breeds on the southern hemisphere but migrates to Greenland during early autumn.
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE MORE GREAT SHEARWATER IMAGES!
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Photographer: LWi
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Date: Aug. 2004
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Image ID: LW002228
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Location: Godthåbsfjorden Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
The black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) is one of the six auk species that breeds in Greenland.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Juni 2006
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Image ID: tejst_1193
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Location: Disko Bugt Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
Red-necked merganser is distributed in most of West Greenland.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Feb. 2005
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Image ID: CEg_7798
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Location: Nuuk Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
The numbers of Greater cormorant is increasing in Greenland.
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Photographer: LWi
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Date: Juli 2005
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Image ID: LW004981
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Location: Disko Bay Original format: Digital, Canon Raw 3504 x 2336 pixels
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Remarks:
Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) or Paracitic jaeger as it is also called.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Juli 2008
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Image ID: CEG_3352
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Location: Sand Island Original format: Dias
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Remarks:
The long-tailed skua depend on lemmings as food and and hence is only breeding in Northeast Greenland.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: July 2008
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Image ID: CEG_0202
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Location: Zackenberg Original format: Dias
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Remarks:
The Iceland gull (Larus glaucoides) is a common bird in Greenland but only distributed very few places outside the borders of Greenland.
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE MORE IMAGES OF ICELAND GULL!
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Juni 2004
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Image ID: hvidvinget_maage_5280
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Location: Godthåbsfjorden Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
The glaucous gull is a common bird species in Greenland.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Maj 2008
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Image ID: _MG_9668
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Location: Disko Bugt Original format: Digitalt, Canon Raw 3504 x 2336 pixels
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Remarks:
The great black-backed gull (Larus maritinus) is the largest gull species in the world.
Click on the image to view more Great black-backed gull images!
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: July 2005
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Image ID: IMG_7393
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Location: Disko Bay Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
Lesser black-backed gull.
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Photographer: LWi
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Date: July 2006
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Image ID: LW009479
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Location: Nuuk Original format: Digital, Canon RAW 3504 x 2336 pixels
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Remarks:
Thayer's gull.
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Photographer: LWi
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Date: July 2006
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Image ID: LW008469
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Location: Nuuk Original format: Digital, Canon RAW 3504 x 2336 pixels
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Remarks:
A mixed flock of common and king eider.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: April 2004
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Image ID: ederfugl_0056
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Location: Nuuk Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
An Arctic tern salutes a shrimp vessel in Disko Bay.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Juli 2003
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Image ID: havterne_1459
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Location: Grønne Ejland Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
Iceland gull at the breeding colony.
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Juni 2004
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Image ID: hvidvinget_maage_5498
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Location: Godthåbsfjorden Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: maj 2004
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Image ID: maage_1710
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Location: Nuuk Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Remarks:
Razorbill (Alca torda).
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Photographer: CEg
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Date: Juli 2003
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Image ID: alk_1553
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Location: Grønne Ejland Original format: Digital, jpg 3072 x 2048 pixels
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Seabirds
