Photo at right: a Black-tailed Godwit 
The subspecies that breeds in Iceland, 
Limosa limosa islandica, breeds only in Iceland. 


Dates:  

September 26 - October 5, 2008


Codes:

(ICr):        rare in Iceland
(ICv):       a vagrant in Iceland

A male Common Eider
photographed during the FONT Iceland Tour in June 2015
(photo by Marie Gardner) 

Links:

Part #1: Grouse to Puffin     Part #2: Sandgrouse to Buntings

Birds during previous FONT Iceland Tours

Complete Iceland Bird-List
(387 species, including vagrants from mainland Europe, Asia, and North America)

A List of Icelandic Wildflowers & some Other Plants  (with some photos)

Upcoming Iceland Birding & Nature Tours

A Eurasian Oystercatcher
photographed during the FONT Iceland Tour in June 2015
(photo by Marie Gardner)

Bird-List:

1. Rock Ptarmigan
   
   
2. Whooper Swan    
   
   
3. Greylag Goose 
   
   
4. Pink-footed Goose 
   
   
5. Barnacle Goose  (ICr in June)
   
   
6. Common Shelduck  (ICr)
   
   
7. Mallard   
   
   
8. Gadwall  
   
   
9. Eurasian Wigeon  
   
   
10. Eurasian Teal   
    
    
11. Tufted Duck  
    
    
12. Greater Scaup  
    
    
13. Barrow's Goldeneye 
    
    
14. Long-tailed Duck  
    
    
15. Harlequin Duck  
    
    
16. Common Scoter 
    
    
17. Surf Scoter  (ICv)
    
    
18. White-winged Scoter  (ICv) 
    
    
19. Common Eider
    
    
20. King Eider  (ICr)  
    
    
21. Common Merganser (or Goosander) 
    
    
22. Red-breasted Merganser  
    
    
23. Common Loon  (or Great Northern Diver)
    
    
24. Red-throated Loon  (or Red-throated Diver) 
    
    
25. Northern Fulmar  
    
    
26. Horned Grebe  (or Slavonian Grebe)  
    
    
27. Northern Gannet  
    
    
28. Great Cormorant      
    
    
29. Merlin 
    
    
30. Eurasian Oystercatcher  
    
    
31. European Golden Plover  
    
     
32. Common Ringed Plover 
    
    
33. Common Redshank 
    
    
34. Dunlin  
    
    
35. Black-tailed Godwit  
    
    
36. "Eurasian" Whimbrel 
    
    
37. Common Snipe
    
    
38. Red-necked Phalarope
    
    
39. Parasitic Jaeger  (or Arctic Skua)
    
    
40. Great Skua
    
    
41. Black-headed Gull  
    
    
42. Common Gull  
    
    
43. Iceland Gull   
    
    
44. Glaucous Gull  
    
    
45. "European" Herring Gull    
    
    
46. Great Black-backed Gull  
    
    
47. Lesser Black-backed Gull
    
    
48. Black-legged Kittiwake   
    
    
49. Arctic Tern
    
    
50. White-winged Tern  (ICv)
    
    
51. Black Guillemot   
    
    
52. Atlantic Puffin   
    
    
53. Feral (or Common) Pigeon   
    
    
54. Northern Raven 
    
    
55. (Barn) Swallow  
    
    
56. Northern Wheatear    
    
    
57. Redwing  
    
    
58. Common Starling  
    
    
59. White Wagtail  
    
    
60. Meadow Pipit  
    
    
61. Common Redpoll  
    
    
62. Brambling  (ICr)
    
    
63. Snow Bunting

Other Wildlife and Nature during the FONT tour 
in Iceland in June 2015


 1.  Harbor Seal