Atlantic Puffin (5)Fratercula arctica IvanM Iceland 📍 Map Date taken: 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! Date uploaded: Jul 15 2014 Views: 3 Write comments
Glaucous Gull (10)Larus hyperboreus IvanM Iceland 📍 Map Date taken: Jan 1 1970 Details: adult This Glaucous Gull had an obvious bill deformity. These birds can survive with such handicap almost as well as normal ones! Date uploaded: Jul 15 2014 Views: 3 Write comments
Greylag Goose (7)Anser anser IvanM Iceland 📍 Map Date taken: Aug 10 2007 Greylag Geese are the most numerous goose species in Iceland! Date uploaded: Jul 15 2014 Views: 6 Write comments
Lesser Black-backed Gull (13)Larus fuscus IvanM Iceland 📍 Map Date taken: Aug 9 2007 Details: 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! Date uploaded: Jul 15 2014 Views: 11 Write comments
White Wagtail (8)Motacilla alba IvanM Iceland 📍 Map Details: juvenile A young White Wagtail in a grass field. This is one of the very few Passerine species that are found breeding in Iceland! Date uploaded: Jul 15 2014 Views: 7 Write comments
Common Eider (17)Somateria mollissima IvanM Iceland 📍 Map Date taken: Jul 28 2007 Details: female A female eider at the Gardur lighthouse, a very good spot for bird- and whale-watching in Iceland! Date uploaded: Jul 15 2014 Views: 1 Write comments
Common Redshank (3)Tringa totanus IvanM Iceland 📍 Map Date taken: Jul 22 2007 Common Redshanks are one of the most abundant shorebirds in Iceland! Date uploaded: Jul 15 2014 Views: 1 Write comments
Black-legged Kittiwake (8)Rissa tridactyla IvanM Iceland 📍 Map Date taken: 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! Date uploaded: Jul 15 2014 Views: 2 Write comments
Whooper Swan (5)Cygnus cygnus IvanM Iceland 📍 Map Date taken: Jul 17 2007 A small Whooper Swan family on Lake Ellidavatn, just outside Reykjavik. Date uploaded: Jul 15 2014 Views: 10 Write comments
Red-necked Phalarope (14)Phalaropus lobatus IvanM Iceland 📍 Map Date taken: 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! Date uploaded: Jul 15 2014 Views: 8 Write comments
