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Birds found during the 
Focus On Nature Tour 
in Iceland

in September/October 2006


List compiled by Armas Hill

Photo at right:  ICELAND GULL 
The species breeds not in Iceland, but in Greenland.
It arrives in Iceland in numbers in September & October.  
 


Dates:  

September 29 - October 2, 2006


Codes:

(ICr):        rare in Iceland

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


Links:

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

A List of Icelandic Wildflowers

Upcoming Iceland Birding Tours

1. Red-throated Loon  (or Red-throated Diver)
   
   
2. Common Loon  (or Great Northern Diver)  
   
   
3. Horned Grebe  (or Slavonian Grebe)  
   
   
4. Northern Fulmar  
   
   
5. (European) Shag 
   
   
6. (Great) Cormorant     
   
   
7. (Northern) Gannet  
   
   
8. Whooper Swan    
   
   
9. Greylag Goose   
   
   
10. Pink-footed Goose    
    
    
11. Brant
    
    
12. Barnacle Goose
    
    
13. Snow Goose  (ICr)
    
    
14. Mallard   
    
    
15. Gadwall 
    
    
16. (Eurasian) Wigeon 
    
    
17. (Common or Eurasian) Teal  
    
    
18. Tufted Duck  
    
    
19. (Greater) Scaup   
    
    
20. Barrow's Goldeneye   
    
    
21. Long-tailed Duck  (has been called Oldsquaw)    
    
    
22. Harlequin Duck 
    
    
23. Common (or Black) Scoter 
    
    
24. Common Eider  
    
    
25. Common Merganser (or Goosander) 
    
    
26. Red-breasted Merganser  
    
    
27. White-tailed Eagle  
    
    
28. Merlin
    
    
29. (Rock) Ptarmigan
    
    
30. (Eurasian) Oystercatcher
    
    
31. (European) Golden Plover
    
     
32. (Common) Ringed Plover  (2 individuals)
    
    
33. Common Redshank 
    
    
34. Purple Sandpiper
    
    
35. Sanderling
    
    
36. (Ruddy) Turnstone
    
    
37. Eurasian Curlew 
    
    
38. Bar-tailed Godwit
    
    
39. Long-billed Dowitcher  (ICr)  
    
    
40. Common Snipe  
    
    
41. Great Skua   
    
    
42. Black-headed Gull   
    
    
43. Sabine's Gull  (ICr)
    
    
44. Common Gull 
    
    
45. Iceland Gull
    
    
46. Glaucous Gull 
    
    
47. Herring Gull    
    
    
48. Lesser Black-backed Gull 
    
    
49. Great Black-backed Gull 
    
    
50. (Black-legged) Kittiwake 
    
     
51. Arctic Tern   (1 individual)
    
    
52. Black Guillemot 
    
    
53. Common Murre  (also called Guillemot) 
    
    
54. Feral (or Rock) Pigeon 
    
    
55. Meadow Pipit   
    
    
56. White Wagtail   
    
    
57. Northern (or Common) Raven 
    
    
58. Northern Wheatear      
    
    
59. Redwing   
    
    
60. Common Starling   
    
    
61. Snow Bunting