Artic Poopies

gyrfalcon

gyrfalcon

gyrfalcon

gyrfalcon

Nodding Campion (Lychnis apetala)

Chinese Lantern Plant, Nodding Campion, Nodding Lychnis, Polar Campion. This is one reason why botanists prefer to use scientific names, but confusingly my two books on Svalbard flowers both give a different scientific name; Silene uralensis and S. wahlbergella. "Tim Melling"

Lapland whitlow-grass or milky whitlow-grass

Draba lactea (Lapland whitlow-grass or milky whitlow-grass) is a flower common throughout the high Arctic. It stretches further south in mountainous areas of Norway, Montana, and Canada. The plant is 2–5 cm tall, and caespitose.

Red throated Loon

Cottongrass

Eriophorum (cottongrass, cotton-grass or cottonsedge) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae, the sedge family.

Pedicularis

Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus), or polar rabbit,

Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus), or polar rabbit,

Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus), or polar rabbit,