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04 May 2014

Puffin fight club

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At Hornøya bird cliff the Puffins have to fight for their right to party. As in all densely inhabited places there is a lot of drama. H...
17 April 2014

Hornøya bird cliff - site development scheme / mulighetsstudie

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Hornøya is perhaps the finest nature attraction in Varanger. The birdlife of Hornøya bird cliff have become famous among birders and na...
01 April 2014

Gullfest 2014 - Touring Varanger / Arctic style birding

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Gullfest 2014 was a bit experimental: instead of having a base camp in Vardø like GF2012&13 we designed this years Gullfest to be a ...
26 March 2014

Pacific Eider in Vardø - again!

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Mega in Varanger: Gullfest 2014 strikes gold!  The worlds northernmost bird festival, Gullfest have just ended. From the 19-24th of M...
13 March 2014

Gullfest 2014 - the Arctic bird festival is on!

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  The northernmost bird festival in the world is back again. We are very excited to launch the third Gullfest in Varanger. We are celebrati...
21 February 2014

Varanger strikes again - Pacific Eider in Vardø!

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Exciting days at the Biotope office: For the first time ever in Europe an eider of the North American / Pacific subspecies Somateria mol...
09 February 2014

Golden birding in Båtsfjord - the King Eider hide

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   Here we go again - The arctic sea ducks are back in Varanger, and Ørjan Hansens floating King Eider photo hide in Båtsfjord is already i...
26 January 2014

Birding Japan - Hokkaido in winter

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This is a trip report from the latest Biotope birding adventure: a three week winter (January 2014) visit to Japan. Our goal for this t...