AnimalsA few impressions of memorable encounters with the local fauna. | |||
 Ermine (Mustela erminea) |  Ooops, the click of the camera! |  Uhm, are you dangerous? |  Can I eat you? |
 Peary Caribou near Crusoe Camp, 2008 (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) |  Male Peary Caribou near Little Matterhorn |  An impressive animal! |  A heard of muskox from the air (Ovibos moschatus) |
 Arctic hare near MARS camp in 1977 (Lepus arcticus) |  Arctic hare (2008) |  Arctic wolf near Crusoe camp (Canis lupus arctos) |  Coming closer... (2008) |
 An arctic wolf at MARS camp in 1977 |  Whose territory is this? |  Wolf-napping |  Close encounter of the arctic kind |
 Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) |  Gull attack... |  ...again and again |  Brant Geese, pale-bellied population (Branta bernicla) |
 Brant Geese marching back and forth) |  Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutal) |  Ptarmingan camouflage |  Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) |
 Red Knot (Calidris camutus) |  Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) |  Baby Snow Bunting (Chamerion latifolium (L.) Holub) |  This baby Red Knot did not make it... |
| Photos Jürg Alean; special thanks to Spencer Hardy. | |||