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Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Jan 1 1970
outside normal range
Southwestern storms often bring North American vagrants to the coast of Iceland. This one landed by the road while I was driving and looked pretty tired, since it did not move away from me for a while. I observed it in the next days and it looked much better, sign that it was recovering from fatigue!
Jul 15 2014
1
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Aug 17 2006
The uninhabited island of Ellidaey hosts one of the largest world colonies of Puffins, along with other seabirds such as storm-petrels and shearwaters!
Jul 15 2014
3
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Jan 1 1970
adult
This Glaucous Gull had an obvious bill deformity. These birds can survive with such handicap almost as well as normal ones!
Jul 15 2014
3
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Aug 10 2007
Greylag Geese are the most numerous goose species in Iceland!
Jul 15 2014
5
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Aug 9 2007
juvenile
Two young Lesser Black-backed Gulls. They were color-banded for a research project on this species. They found that these birds migrate all the way to at least the coast of Mauritania, in West Africa!
Jul 15 2014
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Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
juvenile
A young White Wagtail in a grass field. This is one of the very few Passerine species that are found breeding in Iceland!
Jul 15 2014
5
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Jul 28 2007
female
A female eider at the Gardur lighthouse, a very good spot for bird- and whale-watching in Iceland!
Jul 15 2014
1
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Jul 22 2007
Common Redshanks are one of the most abundant shorebirds in Iceland!
Jul 15 2014
1
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Jul 22 2007
An adult Kittiwake on a cliff in the extreme southwest of Iceland. This place is sadly famous since on a small island just off the coast, the last Great Auk was killed almost two centuries ago!
Jul 15 2014
2
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Jul 17 2007
A small Whooper Swan family on Lake Ellidavatn, just outside Reykjavik.
Jul 15 2014
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