The picture shows an Atlantic puffin up close. The animal is standing upright and has collected all kinds of nesting material in its beautiful brightly coloured beak. The animal is standing on the grass at the top of a cliff, in the distance you can see the sea which gives the photo a beautiful contrast.
The bird of this charismatic seabird was taken during a trip to the Shetland Islands, a Scottish archipelago even further north than Scotland.
I am Björn Donnars. A nature photographer from the Netherlands. Together with my wife, I travel all over the world in search of wildlife. Soon we will leave the Netherlands to live in (hopefully) many different places around the world... Read more…