Photo at right: Atlantic Puffins, photographed in Iceland 


Dates:  

June 3-11, 2006


Codes:

(ICr):        rare in Iceland

(ebsIC):    endemic breeding species in Iceland
(essIC):     endemic subspecies in Iceland


Links:

Cumulative List of Birds during our Iceland Tours

A Complete List of Iceland Birds

List of Selected Icelandic Wildflowers

Upcoming Iceland Birding Tours

1. Red-throated Loon  (or Red-throated Diver)
   
   
2. Common Loon  (or Great Northern Diver)  
   
   
3. Yellow-billed Loon  (or White-billed Diver)  (ICr)    
   
   
4. Horned Grebe  (or Slavonian Grebe)  
   
   
5. Northern Fulmar  
   
   
6. Manx Shearwater
   
   
7. (European) Shag 
   
   
8. (Great) Cormorant     
   
   
9. (Northern) Gannet  
   
   
10. Whooper Swan    
    
    
11. Greylag Goose   
    
    
12. Pink-footed Goose    
    
    
13. Mallard   
    
    
14. Gadwall 
    
    
15. (Eurasian) Wigeon 
    
    
16. (Common or Eurasian) Teal  
    
    
17. (American) Green-winged Teal
    
    
18. Garganey
    
    
19. Tufted Duck  
    
    
20. (Greater) Scaup   
    
    
21. Barrow's Goldeneye   
    
    
22. Long-tailed Duck  (has been called Oldsquaw)    
    
    
23. Harlequin Duck 
    
    
24. Common (or Black) Scoter 
    
    
25. Common Eider  
    
    
26. King Eider
    
    
27. Common Merganser (or Goosander) 
    
    
28. Red-breasted Merganser  
    
    
29. White-tailed Eagle  
    
    
30. Gyrfalcon 
    
    
31. Merlin
    
    
32. (Rock) Ptarmigan
    
    
33. (Eurasian or Common) Coot
    
    
34. (Eurasian) Oystercatcher
    
    
35. (European) Golden Plover
    
     
36. Black-bellied (or Grey) Plover  
    
    
37. (Common) Ringed Plover 
    
    
38. "Eurasian" Whimbrel 
    
    
39. Black-tailed Godwit  
    
    
40. Common Redshank 
    
    
41. Dunlin
    
    
42. Purple Sandpiper   
    
    
43. Sanderling
    
    
44. (Red) Knot
    
    
45. (Ruddy) Turnstone
    
    
46. Common Snipe  
    
    
47. Red-necked Phalarope   
    
    
48. Red Phalarope (also called Grey Phalarope) (ICr)   
    
    
49. Parasitic Jaeger (or Arctic Skua) 
    
    
50. Great Skua   
    
    
51. Black-headed Gull   
    
    
52. Common Gull 
    
    
53. Iceland Gull
    
    
54. Glaucous Gull 
    
    
55. Herring Gull    
    
    
56. Lesser Black-backed Gull 
    
    
57. Great Black-backed Gull 
    
    
58. (Black-legged) Kittiwake 
    
     
59. Arctic Tern   
    
    
60. Black Guillemot 
    
    
61. Common Murre  (also called Guillemot) 
    
    
62. Thick-billed Murre (or Brunnich's Guillemot) 
    
    
63. Razorbill   
    
    
64. Atlantic Puffin 
    
    
65. Feral (or Rock) Pigeon 
    
    
66. (Barn) Swallow
    
    
67. (Northern or European) House Martin
    
    
68. Meadow Pipit   
    
    
69. White Wagtail   
    
    
70. "Icelandic" (Northern or Winter) Wren 
    
    
71. (Common or Northern) Raven 
    
    
72. Northern Wheatear      
    
    
73. Redwing   
    
    
74. Common Starling   
    
    
75. "Icelandic" Common Redpoll 
    
    
76. Snow Bunting     

Arctic Fox  (dark)


Harbor Seal 


Minke Whale