During the morning of August 2, 2010, we sailed down the west coast of Spitsbergen toward Hornsund and made an afternoon zodiac landing at Sør-Spitsbergen Nasjonal Park for a three hour hike at Gnålodden. This is a close-up photograph of an adult Glaucous Gull in summer plumage. Skuas and Glaucous Gulls fill the niche of birds of prey on Svalbard due to the lack of a rodent population required by hawks and eagles. Temperatures were in the upper 40's on this partly cloudy day.