Six-minute video of scientists working on ladders along sheer cliffs and explaining their research at the Blomstrandøya kittiwake colony near Ny-Ålesund on Spitsbergen Island in the High Arctic. See previous post, Seabird diaries: Science on the rocks, for more details.

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Newly-hatched kittiwake chick. © Randall Hyman