Bleiksøya
Bleiksøya or Bleiksøy is a small (15 ha) uninhabited island and nature reserve in near the
Andøy Municipality of Nordland county in Arctic northern Norway. It is a steep pyramidal island with grassy slopes and cliffs surrounded by gullies and boulder scree. It, with its adjacent marine waters, has been designated a 530 ha Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International (BLI) because it supports, or has supported, a large breeding colony of Atlantic puffins. A 2016 assessment by BLI found that the puffin population was threatened by climate change and severe weather and had declined by over 90% from a historical estimate of 75,000 breeding pairs.[1]
References
- ^ "Bleiksøy". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
70°06′12″N 18°30′11″E / 70.10333°N 18.50306°E
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