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 28 - October 6, 2008


Codes:

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



Links:

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

Birds during previous FONT Iceland Tours

Complete Iceland Bird-List
(over 350 species, including vagrants from mainland Europe, Asia, & North America)

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

Upcoming Iceland Birding & Nature Tours

1. Rock Ptarmigan  oct
   
   
2. Whooper Swan   sep,oct 
   
   
3. Greylag Goose  sep,oct 
   
   
4. Pink-footed Goose  oct  
   
   
5. Brant Goose  sep
   
   
6. Barnacle Goose  sep
   
   
7. Mallard   sep,oct 
   
   
8. American Black Duck  (ICv)  sep,oct
   
   
9. Gadwall  oct
   
   
10. Eurasian Wigeon  sep,oct
    
    
11. American Wigeon  (ICr)  oct 
    
    
12. Eurasian Teal  oct  
    
    
13. Tufted Duck  sep oct
    
    
14. Greater Scaup  oct 
    
    
15. Barrow's Goldeneye  oct 
    
    
16. Long-tailed Duck  (in North America, has been called Oldsquaw)  oct 
    
    
17. Harlequin Duck  oct
    
    
18. Black Scoter  (has been called Common Scoter)  sep,oct
    
    
19. Common Eider  sep,oct 
    
    
20. Common Merganser (or Goosander)  sep,oct
    
    
21. Red-breasted Merganser  sep,oct
    
    
22. Red-throated Loon  (or Red-throated Diver)  oct
    
    
23. Common Loon  (or Great Northern Diver)  sep,oct
    
    
24. Northern Fulmar  sep,oct
    
    
25. Horned Grebe  (or Slavonian Grebe)  oct
    
    
26. Grey Heron (ICr)  sep 
    
    
27. Northern Gannet  sep
    
    
28. Great Cormorant  sep,oct     
    
    
29. Gyrfalcon  oct  (3 adults seen during the tour) 
    
    
30. Merlin  sep,oct
    
    
31. Common Kestrel  (ICr)  sep
    
    
32. Eurasian Oystercatcher  sep,oct
    
    
33. Grey (or Black-bellied) Plover  (ICr)  sep 
    
    
34. European Golden Plover  sep,oct
    
     
35. Common Redshank  sep,oct
    
    
36. Purple Sandpiper  oct
    
    
37. Dunlin  sep 
    
    
38. Ruddy Turnstone  sep,oct
    
    
39. Black-tailed Godwit  sep,oct
    
    
40. Bar-tailed Godwit  sep,oct
    
    
41. Common Snipe  sep,oct
    
    
42. Common Black-headed Gull   sep,oct 
    
    
43. Common (or Mew) Gull   sep
    
    
44. Iceland Gull   sep,oct
    
    
45. Glaucous Gull  sep,oct
    
    
46. "European" Herring Gull  sep,oct   
    
    
47. Lesser Black-backed Gull  sep (1 bird)
    
    
48. Great Black-backed Gull  sep,oct
    
    
49. Black Guillemot   oct 
    
    
50. Atlantic Puffin  sep   
    
    
51. Feral (or Common) Pigeon   sep
    
    
52. Northern Raven   sep.oct
    
    
53. Goldcrest  (ICr)  oct
    
    
54. "Icelandic"  Northern (or Winter) Wren  sep,oct
    
    
55. Northern Wheatear  sep      
    
    
56. Common Blackbird  (ICr)   sep
    
    
57. Redwing   sep,oct
    
    
58. Common Starling   sep,oct
    
    
59. White Wagtail   sep,oct
    
    
60. Meadow Pipit  sep
    
    
61. Buff-bellied (or American) Pipit  (ICv)  sep 
    
    
62. Eurasian Siskin  (ICr)  sep
    
    
63. "Icelandic" Common Redpoll  sep,oct
    
    
64. Red Crossbill  (ICr)  oct
    
    
65. Snow Bunting    sep,oct 

Other Wildlife & Nature during the FONT tour 
in Iceland in September/October 2008


 1.   Arctic Fox  (the "white variety")  oct


 2.   Reindeer (Caribou)  sep


 3.   Harbor Seal  sep,oct 


 4.  Gray Seal  oct


 5. "Northern Lights" of Aurora Borealis   oct