Thousands of birds but one very small bill - Hull Daily Mail
26 May 2012, 12:40 am
The favourites are the puffins, which can be easily seen from the numerous cliff-top viewing platforms. Other birds, such as huge gannets, kittiwakes, fulmars and guillemots, go about their daily business, and can be seen easily with binoculars.

Now Booking For The Seabird Spectacle 2012 - AboutMyArea
24 May 2012, 2:51 am
In the morning, the MV Yorkshire Belle RSPB Puffin Cruise leaves Bridlington harbour and heads for Flamborough Head providing guests with the opportunity to see Gannets and Puffins within metres of the boat, while kittiwakes, Shags, Guillemots, Razorbills ...

AOS AGM at Bempton Cliffs - Surfbirds News
21 May 2012, 4:16 pm
Gannets were present in great numbers as were kittiwakes and auks, apparently 200,000 seabirds breed on these cliffs every year.  Although some Puffins were on the sea I onlysaw two sat on the cliffs. For many years Puffins have been declining ...

Somewhat South of the North Pole - Minuteman News Center
18 May 2012, 8:06 am
On the cliffs and crashing sea below the colony, tens of thousands of nesting common murres and black-legged kittiwakes fill every fault line like rows of pearls. Massive schools of small capelin stream through the crystal clear water and whales ...

Hapag-Lloyd Offers Alaska Expeditions for Summer 2012 and 2013 - Travel Agent
16 May 2012, 10:17 am
Guests will be able to observe fur seals, kittiwakes and guillemots, as well as the occasional bald eagle. An optional excursion visits Dutch Harbor, which boasts the oldest Russian Orthodox church in North America. In Amalik and Kukak Bays travelers can ...

Homer waves bye bye to birds and hello to monster flatfish - Alaska Dispatch
13 May 2012, 3:57 pm
Visitors slowly pulled out of town on Sunday as the 20 th Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival ended in Homer. A Gull Island tour looking for kittiwakes, murres, puffins and other seabirds was the last event of a weekend packed with some 50 different programs ...

A wildlife walk over the white cliffs of Dover, Kent - The Guardian
12 May 2012, 6:07 pm
Above them, kittiwakes cry out and fulmars swoop by on the breeze. In summer both birds breed on tiny ledges on the precipitous cliffs. Meanwhile, where scrub has been left to grow, you may see warblers such as the whitethroat, as well as ...

Souter Lighthouse to South Shields, Tyne and Wear | Great British walks - The Guardian
11 May 2012, 6:58 pm
Marsden's limestone cliffs, which have been sculpted into strange shapes by the waves, are a nesting ground where kittiwakes, cormorants, fulmar, and razorbills make cities of their own. The pub-in-a-cave is also pretty extraordinary.

Arctic cruises: the lonely life at 79 degrees north - Daily Telegraph
9 May 2012, 3:33 pm
Above us towers Horn Peak, its 4,695ft summit lost in clouds and vertiginous cliffs, alive with thousands of fulmars, kittiwakes and guillemots whose incessant din gives the mountain its nickname. A guide removes the door barricades, and inside ice and ...

Prince Charles addresses World Fisheries Congress in Edinburgh - BBC News
8 May 2012, 5:40 am
"For several years now we have seen worrying declines of sensitive species like kittiwakes, and many once-massive colonies in the Northern Isles have dwindled. "We need to build resilience into our seabird populations in the face of these changes ...