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Vardø, Norway – 3 July 2025
1. Mid of puffins
2. Wide of cliffs with Vardø and GLOBUS radar station in background
3. Various of birds on cliffs
4. Jan Vidar Hansen’s fishing boat, Gluecifer, in Vardø harbour
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Vidar Hansen, fisherman and Seagull Hotel owner:
“About 70 to 90 percent of the seabirds is gone, during the last 30 years. Lack of food, there’s bird flu, that’s been pretty hard the last three years. Mainly it’s overfishing, and also there’s a big change in the Barents Sea now at the moment, it produces less algae, warmer weather, warmer water, less oxygen coming in, so we see a lot of change. The climate is heating up and the water is coming to be in January, February 3, 4, 5 degrees (Celsius). Now, we see 8, 9 degrees (Celsius).”
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Vardø, Norway – 2 July 2025
6. Close of seagull in nest on Jan Vidar Hansen’s building
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Vardø, Norway – 3 July 2025
7. Wide of seagulls nesting on side of a crumbling harbour building
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Vardø, Norway – 2 July 2025
8. Close of seagull nests with eggs in them
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Vardø, Norway – 3 July 2025
9. Mid of seagulls flying in and out of Jan Vidar Hansen’s seagull hotel
10. Close of seagulls in seagull hotel
11. Wide of seagull hotel, boats in background
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Vidar Hansen, fisherman and Seagull Hotel owner:
“It was staying there empty for five days, and I put five nests in from last year in them and they moved in. It’s been there for three years now, the first year there was 55 nests, last year, it was 74, and this year, we have 76. Due to the bird flu probably many of them died, so that’s why there’s many empty nests around the whole city.”
13. Pan of seagulls in hotel
14. Mid of seagulls in hotel
15. Close of seagulls in hotel
16. Close of lifebuoy, pull focus to “Make the North Great Again!” sign
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Vardø, Norway – 2 July 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Skrydstrup, museum educator, Vardø Museum:
“The seagulls have a very big importance for the locals. Even if it has a lot of seagulls here, different species, they also occupy the town. But they came here from the ’60s and the locals see them as actually come with the spring. So, it is like when the seagulls are coming, the spring is also near. So, it’s a good feeling.”
18. Close of museum exhibit of seagull in nest made of plastic waste, pan to other bird exhibit
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Skrydstrup, museum educator, Vardø Museum:
“I grew up in this town, and we didn’t know about these species actually. We have these big birds and the small birds. And now, we have for 10 years, 15 years, people coming from everywhere in the world to see. And we couldn’t even get flights into Vardø because this bird behind me came in the harbour. Very, very rare seldom species, so this has become a new industry actually.”
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Vardø, Norway – 3 July 2025
20. Pan of cliffs of Hornøya island, birds flying around
21. Puffins
22. Wide of sky with birds flying past
23. Mid of cliffs with Vardø and GLOBUS radar station in background
24. Pan of seagull flying past cliffs with puffins
25. Close of puffin walking into nest
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Belchev, Hornøya ranger and bird guide:
“Last summer, I arrived from beginning of June, and I’m here first time after 2011 in summertime, and I was shocked what happened here. Because I remember I was just driving with the car with so, so many birds on the way, and last summer I was shocked, what’s going on here? Where are all the birds?”
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