# A Colony of Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) at Alkefjellet, Svalbard

- By: Andreas Weith
- Date: 2015-07-29
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Colony_of_Br%C3%BCnnich%27s_guillemot_(Uria_lomvia)_at_Alkefjellet,_Svalbard.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/A_Colony_of_Br%C3%BCnnich%27s_guillemot_%28Uria_lomvia%29_at_Alkefjellet%2C_Svalbard.jpg/1920px-A_Colony_of_Br%C3%BCnnich%27s_guillemot_%28Uria_lomvia%29_at_Alkefjellet%2C_Svalbard.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Alkefjellet is a basalt rock formation at Hinlopen Strait on Spitsbergen, harboring approximately 60,000 breeding pairs of Brünnich's guillemot Uria lomvia in Summer. Birds are sitting on every possible space on the cliff with their back to the open air in order to protect the hatchlings.