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Black-legged kittiwakes breeding along the Norwegian coast and around the Barents Sea declined considerably between 2024 and -25. One of the chicks in this nest has died. Photo © Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard

Report from the seabird monitoring in Norway in 2025

The long-term decline of Norwegian seabird populations continues at a disturbing pace.
Polar bear snatches commom eider eggs. Photo © Børge Moe & Sveinn Are Hanssen

Record number of polar bear visits to eiders nesting on islets on Spitsbergen

Causes repeated breeding failure which may threaten the population.
Seabirds and orca near a fishing vessel. Photo © Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

Seabirds as indicators of sustainable fisheries management

A new study suggests that current capelin fisheries management in the Barents Sea has limited negative effects on adult seabird survival.
Atlantic puffin about to land. Photo © Sébastien Descamps

Man-made toxins found in Atlantic puffins on Spitsbergen

A study compares levels of pollutants in the blood of the world’s northernmost population of Atlantic puffins with more southern puffin populations and other species.
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Key-site monitoring in Norway 2025.

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Key-site monitoring in Norway 2025, including Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Seabird survival as indicator of sustainable capelin fishery management

Environmentally induced stress affects fitness of bold and shy alike: A long-term study of personality and feather corticosterone in Arctic-breeding kittiwakes

An individual-based model to quantify the non-breeding season impact of wind farms on seabirds

Divergent migratory strategies of black guillemots from two colonies in the Norwegian Sea

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