Bleiksøya


Bleiksøya or Bleiksøy is a small uninhabited island and nature reserve in near the fishing village of Bleik on the island of Andøya in Andøy Municipality of Nordland county in Arctic northern Norway. It is a steep pyramidal island with grassy slopes and cliffs surrounded by gullies and boulder scree. It, with its adjacent marine waters, has been designated a 530 ha Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of Atlantic puffins. A 2016 assessment by BLI found that the puffin population was threatened by climate change and severe weather and had declined by over 90% from a historical estimate of 75,000 breeding pairs.