Nesting colony of Thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) at Aalkefjellet Hinlopenstretet Spitsbergen, Svalbard, home to over 60,000

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Nesting colony of Thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) at Aalkefjellet Hinlopenstretet Spitsbergen, Svalbard, home to over 60,000 pairs in July. This coastal seabird is native to northern latitudes of Europe, Asia and North America. It feeds mainly on fish and breeds in large colonies on cliff-sides. Photographed in July in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic.

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Photo credit: © Eyal Bartov / Alamy / Afripics
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