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Birds and Other Wildlife
during the 
Focus On Nature Tour 
in Iceland

in June  2012


List compiled by Armas Hill


 Photo at right: Atlantic Puffins, 
photographed in Iceland 
Dates:  

June 8-16, 2012


Links:

A List of Birds during FONT Iceland Tours     A Complete List of Iceland Birds 

A List & Photo Gallery of European Birds, in 2 parts:
Part #1: Grouse to Puffin     Part #2: Sandgrouse to Buntings

Icelandic Wildflowers  (with some photos)

A Directory of Photos in this Website

Upcoming FONT Birding & Nature Tours in Iceland   

The List of Other Wildlife follows the Bird-List. 



 Bird-List:

  1. Rock Ptarmigan  _____
    Lagopus muta islandorum
  2. Whooper Swan  _____  
    Cygnus cygnus
  3. Greylag Goose  _____ 
    Anser a. anser
  4. Pink-footed Goose  ______
    Anser brachyrhynchus

  5. Mallard  _____
    Anas platyrhynchos
  6. Gadwall  ______
    Anas strepera

  7. Northern Pintail  _____
    Anas acuta
  8. Eurasian Wigeon  _____
    Anas penelope
  9. Eurasian Teal  _____
    Anas crecca
  10. Tufted Duck  _____
    Aythya fuligula
  11. Greater Scaup  _____
    Aythya m. marita
  12. Barrow's Goldeneye  ______
    Bucephala islandica

  13. Long-tailed Duck  _____
    Clangua hyemalis
  14. Harlequin Duck _____
    Histrionicus histrionicus
  15. Common Eider  _____
    Somateria m. mollissima 
  16. Red-breasted Merganser _____ 
    Mergus serrator
  17. Red-throated Loon  (or Red-throated Diver)  _____ 
    Gavia stellata
  18. Common Loon  (or Great Northern Diver)  _____
    Gavia immer 
  19. Northern Fulmar  ______ 
    Fulmarus glacialis auduboni 
  20. Manx Shearwater  _____
    Puffinus puffinus 
  21. Horned Grebe  (or Slavonian Grebe)  ______  
    Podiceps a. auritus  
  22. Northern Gannet  ______
    Morus     (formerly Sula) bassens
  23. European Shag  ______
    Leucocarbo aristotelis

  24. Great Cormorant  ______
    Phalacrocorax c. carbo
  25. Eurasian Oystercatcher  _____ 
    Haematopus o. ostralegus 
  26. European Golden Plover  _____ 
    Pluvialis apricaria altifrons
     
  27. Ringed Plover _____
    Charadrius h. hiaticula
  28. "Eurasian" Whimbrel _____
    Numenius p. phaeopus
  29. Black-tailed Godwit  _____
    Limosa limosa icelandica      (endemic breeding Icelandic subspecies) 
  30. Common Redshank _____
    Tringa totanus robusta
  31. Dunlin  _____
    Calidris alpina schinzii
  32. Purple Sandpiper  ______ 
    Calidris maritima

  33. Common Snipe _____ 
    Gallinago gallinago faeroeensis
  34. Red-necked Phalarope _____  
    Phalaropus lobatus
  35. Parasitic Jaeger (or Arctic Skua) _____
     Stercorarius parasiticus
  36. Pomarine Jaeger (or Pomarine Skua)  ______
    Stercorarius pomarinus

  37. Great Skua   _____
    Stercorarius skua
  38. Black-headed Gull  _____ 
    Chroicocephalus     (formerly Larus) ridibundus
  39. Iceland Gull  _____
    Larus g. glaucoides 
  40. Glaucous Gull _____
    Larus h. hyperboreus
  41. Herring Gull  _____   
    Larus argentatus argentatus
  42. Lesser Black-backed Gull  _____
    Larus fuscus
  43. Great Black-backed Gull  _____
    Larus marinus
  44. Black-legged Kittiwake _____
    Rissa tridactyla
     
  45. Arctic Tern  _____  
    Sterna paradisaea
  46. Black Guillemot  _____
    Cepphus g. grylle
  47. Common Murre  (also called Guillemot)  _____
    Uria a. aalge
  48. Thick-billed Murre  (also called Brunnich's Guillemot)  _____
    Uria lomvia
  49. Razorbill  _____ 
    Uria torda islandica
  50. Atlantic Puffin  _____
    Fratercula a. arctica
  51. Common (or Feral) Pigeon _____
    Columba livia
  52. Short-eared Owl  _____
    Asio f. flammeus
  53. Northern Raven  _____
    Corvus corax varius
  54. Northern Wheatear  _____   
    Oenanthe oenanthe leucorrha   
  55. Redwing  _____
    Turdus iliacus coburni
  56. Common Blackbird _____
    Turdus m. merula
  57. Common Starling  _____ 
    Sturnus v. vulgaris
  58. Meadow Pipit  _____
    Anthus p. pratensis 
  59. White Wagtail  _____
    Motacilla a. alba
  60. "Icelandic" Common Redpoll  _____
    Carduelis flammea islandica      (endemic subspecies in Iceland)

  61. Snow Bunting  _____   
    Plectrophenax nivalis insulae  



Other Wildlife & Nature during the FONT tour 
in Iceland in June 2012

Arctic Fox  ______  (3 seen)
Vulpes lagopus


Reindeer  ______  (called Caribou in North America)
Rangifer tarandus  (the single member of its genus)


Harbor Seal  _____
Phoca vitulina


Grey Seal  ______
Halichoerus grypus


White-beaked Dolphin  ______
Lagenorhynchus albirostris


Blue Whale  ______  (2 seen)
Balaenoptera murculus musculus  (subspecies in the North Atlantic & North Pacific Oceans)  

Northern Minke Whale  ______
Balaenoptera acutorostrata


Moon Jellyfish  ______
Aurelia aurita


numerous wildflowers  ______


glaciers  ______


volcanoes  ______