The bird life at Gjesværstappan

Latin (scientific) name - Chepphus grylle.  Family name - Alcidae

Number of eggs - 1 - 2 eggs
Hatching time - 30 days
Age of independence - 50 days
Oldest known age - 20 years
Length from tip of bill to tail - 30 – 32 cm

It flies very close to the water surface. A normal dive is 1 – 8 m deep (max dive is 25 m deep).

Teist   Riskilä   Tejst   Black Guillemot   Tobisgrissla   Guillemot à miroir blanc    Zwarte zeekoet   Uria nera   Gryllteiste   Arao aliblanco   Teista   Nurzyk białoskrzydły

- Birds in Ola's BirdGuide -

Puffin  |  Guillemot  |  Razorbill   Black Guillemot   Red-necked Phalarope  |  Purple Sandpiper  |  Shag  |  Cormorant  |  Arctic Skua  |  White-tailed Eagle  |  Raven  |  Carrion Crow  |  Gannet  |  Fulmar  |  Oystercatcher  |  Arctic Tern  |  Great black-backed Gull  |  Kittiwake Common Gull  |  Herring Gull  |  Eider  |  Goosander  |  Long-tailed Duck  |  Mallard  |  † Great Auk