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Atlantic puffin
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family.
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BirdLife International
BirdLife International (formerly the International Council for Bird Preservation) is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats, and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.
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Black Death
The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or simply the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.
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Black guillemot
The black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle) is a medium-sized alcid.
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Common murre
The common murre or common guillemot (Uria aalge) is a large auk.
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European storm petrel
The European storm petrel, British storm petrel or just storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) is a seabird in the northern storm petrel family, Hydrobatidae.
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands (Føroyar; Færøerne), sometimes called the Faeroe Islands, is an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland, north-northwest of Scotland.
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Færeyinga saga
The Færeyinga Saga, the saga of the Faroe Islands, is the story of how the Faroe Islanders were converted to Christianity and became a part of Norway.
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Great skua
The great skua (Stercorarius skua) is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
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Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.
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Guillemot
Guillemots is the common name for several species of seabird in the auk family (part of the order Charadriiformes).
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Heyggjurin Mikli
Heyggjurin Mikli is marginally the second highest point of Skuvoy in the central Faroe Islands.
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Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
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Knútur (Skúvoy)
Knútur (also known as Knúkur) is marginally the highest point of Skúvoy in the central Faroe Islands.
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List of islands of the Faroe Islands
This is a list of islands of the Faroe Islands.
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Manx shearwater
The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.
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Northern fulmar
The northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), fulmar, or Arctic fulmar is a highly abundant sea bird found primarily in subarctic regions of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
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Per á Hædd
Per á Hædd is a Faroese photographer based in Tórshavn whose photographs were featured on stamps issued in 1999: Image:Faroe_stamp_348_kalsoy.jpg|Kalsoy Image:Faroe_stamp_349_vidoy.jpg|Viðoy Image:Faroe_stamp_350_svinoy.jpg|Svinoy Image:Faroe_stamp_352_kunoy.jpg|Kunoy Image:Faroe_stamp_353_bordoy.jpg|Borðoy and later on stamps issued in the year 2000: Image:Faroe_stamp_373_skuvoy.jpg|Skúvoy Image:Faroe_stamp_374_hestur.jpg|Hestur Image:Faroe_stamp_375_koltur.jpg|Koltur Image:Faroe_stamp_375_nolsoy.jpg|Nólsoy.
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Posta (company)
Posta is the postal service of the Faroe Islands and was founded on 1 April 1976 under the Home Rule of the Faroe Islands.
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Ramsar Convention
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.
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Sandoy
Sandoy (Sandø. English: Sand Island) is the first of the five southern islands that make up the Faroe chain, the fifth biggest of all the Faroe Islands, an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Sandur, Faroe Islands
Sandur (meaning sandy beach; Sand) is a village on the south coast of the island of Sandoy in the Faroe Islands.
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Seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.
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Sigmundur Brestisson
Sigmundur Brestisson (961–1005) introduced Christianity to the Faroe Islands in 999.
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Skúvoy, Skúvoy
The village Skúvoy (Skuø) lies on the east side of the island with the same name.
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Skua
The skuas are a group of seabirds with about seven species forming the family Stercorariidae and the genus Stercorarius.
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Western European Summer Time
Western European Summer Time (WEST) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
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Whimbrel
The whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skúvoy
