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Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Jul 17 2007
Red-necked Phalaropes are quite common in Iceland. Around the end of July they all gather to a couple of ponds in the West where they molt, before embarking on the migration that will take them as far as the Pacific coast of Peru!
Jul 15 2014
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Jul 17 2007
A small Whooper Swan family on Lake Ellidavatn, just outside Reykjavik.
Jul 15 2014
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
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Jul 22 2007
Common Redshanks are one of the most abundant shorebirds in Iceland!
Jul 15 2014
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
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
Copyright IvanM
Birdviewing.com
Aug 10 2007
Greylag Geese are the most numerous goose species in Iceland!
Jul 15 2014
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
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
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