Your place or mine? Exploring birdwatching tourists’ behaviour disturbing birds in a nature reserve

• Published in: European Journal of Wildlife Research
• Main Authors: Aas, Øystein, Jørgensen, Frida Marie Omma, Stensland, Stian, Reiertsen, Tone, Dybsand, Hilde Nikoline Hambro
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023
• Subjects: Original Article; Hornøya; Norway; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10088662/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-023-01678-y

To manage for more sustainable wildlife viewing tourism, a better understanding of tourists’ behaviour that might disturb and negatively affect wildlife such as birds is needed. We conducted a qualitative case study of visitors to Hornøya, a protected bird cliff in Northern Norway. Behaviours with t...