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 Kristin, Dybsand, Hilde Nikoline Hambro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2023
• Subjects: Hornøya; Norway; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30487; 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...