The Razorbill is on the list of threatened species. It is listed near threatened within Europe. Here in Iceland the decline has not been very noticeable and it is estimated that 300 thousand pairs breed here, 75% of them in Látrabjarg, in the Westfjords.
The European Commission issues the European Red List of Birds, compiled by BirdLife International, 2015.
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The biggest Razorbill colony
Here Kristin is taking a photo of a pair of Razorbills. You have to lie on your stomach to protect yourself from falling.
The cliff below is probably around 400 metres high and actually the biggest bird colony in Iceland and the biggest Razorbill colony in the world.
These photoes are from a birding trip we took in 2011 to the Westfjords, more precisely from Látrabjarg, which is the Western most point of Iceland. It is also the Western most point of Europe if you don’t take the Azore Islands into count.