Photo at right: Atlantic Puffins, photographed in Iceland 


Dates:  

June 6-13, 2009


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. Horned Grebe  (or Slavonian Grebe)  
   
   
4. Northern Fulmar  
   
   
5. Manx Shearwater
   
   
6. European Shag 
   
   
7. Great Cormorant     
   
   
8. Northern Gannet  
   
   
9. Whooper Swan    
   
   
10. Greylag Goose   
    
    
11. Mallard   
    
    
12. Eurasian Wigeon 
    
    
13. Common or Eurasian Teal  
    
    
14. Tufted Duck  
    
    
15. Greater Scaup   
    
    
16. Barrow's Goldeneye   
    
    
17. Harlequin Duck 
    
    
18. Common Eider  
    
    
19. King Eider  (ICr)
    
    
20. Common Merganser (or Goosander) 
    
    
21. Red-breasted Merganser  
    
    
22. White-tailed Eagle  
    
    
23. Merlin
    
    
24. Rock Ptarmigan
    
    
25. Eurasian Oystercatcher
    
    
26. European Golden Plover
    
     
27. Ringed Plover 
    
    
28. "Eurasian" Whimbrel 
    
    
29. Black-tailed Godwit  
    
    
30. Common Redshank 
    
    
31. Purple Sandpiper   
    
    
32. Common Snipe  
    
    
33. Red-necked Phalarope   
    
    
34. Parasitic Jaeger (or Arctic Skua) 
    
    
35. Great Skua   
    
    
36. Black-headed Gull   
    
    
37. Common Gull 
    
    
38. Iceland Gull
    
    
39. Glaucous Gull 
    
    
40. Herring Gull    
    
    
41. Lesser Black-backed Gull 
    
    
42. Great Black-backed Gull 
    
    
43. Black-legged Kittiwake 
    
     
44. Arctic Tern   
    
    
45. Black Guillemot 
    
    
46. Common Murre  (also called Guillemot) 
    
    
47. Razorbill   
    
    
48. Atlantic Puffin 
    
    
49. Feral (or Rock) Pigeon 
    
    
50. Short-eared Owl
    
    
51. Meadow Pipit   
    
    
52. White Wagtail   
    
    
53. "Icelandic" Northern or Winter Wren 
    
    
54. Common or Northern Raven 
    
    
55. Northern Wheatear      
    
    
56. Redwing  
    
    
57. Common Blackbird 
    
    
58. Common Starling   
    
    
59. "Icelandic" Common Redpoll 
    
    
60. Snow Bunting     

Harbor Seal 

European Rabbit (introduced)