Black-legged Kittiwakes - a kind of gull, nesting on the window frames of dilapidated apartment buildings in Barentsburg.

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Black-legged Kittiwakes - a kind of gull, nesting on the window frames of dilapidated apartment buildings in Barentsburg, a Russian coal mining town in the Norwegian Archipelago of Svalbard. Once home to about 2000 miners and their families, less than 500 people now live here.

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Location: Barentsburg, Svalbard, Norway
Photo credit: © deadlyphoto.com / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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