Places
Excellent places for watching seabirds (Guillemots, Kittiwakes and Puffins are common everywhere) include
- Svínoy with many Great Skuas
- The Vestmanna cliffs with a boat tour
- Mykines has the only Faroese population of Gannets
- Nólsoy has the largest colony of Storm Petrels in the world
- Skúvoy with the largest Faroes colony of Guillemots and lots of Great Skuas, which gave the island its name
- Suðuroy has at the West coast the best accessible bird cliffs from the land side.
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of The Faroe Islands
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