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 Rock Ptarmigan |
 Puffin |
 Eider duck |
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 Skua |
 Harlequin Duck |
 White tailed Eagle |
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A two week trip covering the South east and Westfjords of Iceland. The route included Vestmannaeyjar Island; Jokulsarlon; Pingvell; Laugarvatin; Borganes; Budardalur; Isafjardardjup; Keflavik /Grindavik. All accommodation made with Booking.com; Car Hire at Airport (Budget); Flights by Easyjet. Good food shops, supermarkets and Petrol stations. Buy your drink/beer at the duty free at arrivals - otherwise enjoy the great coffee served in all place, everybody very friendly. Good web site /face book of rarities in Iceland - Dipped on the Sabine Gull. https://notendur.hi.is/~yannk/birdnews.html
Useful Recent Trip Reports:
http://www.ornitholidays.co.uk/tourreports/Iceland%20May%202013.pdf
http://www.birdquest-tours.com/pdfs/report/Iceland%202013-ebook1.pdf
http://www.hows.org.uk/inter/birds/2013trip/iceland%20trip%20report.pdf
1. Great Northern Diver
2. Red-throated Diver
3. Slavonian Grebe - Horned Grebe
4. Fulmar - Northern Fulmar
5. Gannet - Northern Gannet
6. Cormorant - Great Cormorant
7. Shag - European Shag
8. Whooper Swan - Whooper Swan
9. Greylag Goose - Greylag Goose
10. Mallard – Mallard
11. Wigeon - Eurasian Wigeon
12. Teal - Green-winged Teal
13. Manx Shearwater
14. House sparrow
15.Iceland gull
16. Barnacle Geese
17. Scaup - Greater Scaup
18. Tufted Duck - Tufted Duck
19. Barrow’s Goldeneye - Barrow’s Goldeneye
20. Harlequin Duck - Harlequin Duck
21. Long-tailed Duck - Long-tailed Duck
22. Eider - Common Eider
23. Goosander - Common Merganser
24. Red-breasted Merganser - Red-breasted Merganser
25. White-tailed Eagle - White-tailed Eagle
26. Ptarmigan - Rock Ptarmigan
27. Oystercatcher - Eurasian Oystercatcher
28. Ringed Plover - Common Ringed Plover
29. Golden Plover - European Golden Plover
30. Dunlin – Dunlin
31. Purple Sandpiper
32. Knot - Red Knot
33. Sanderling
34. Snipe - Common Snipe
35. Black-tailed Godwit
36. Whimbrel
37. Redshank - Common Redshank
38. Turnstone
39. Red-necked Phalarope
40. Great Skua
41. Arctic Skua - Parasitic Jaeger
42. Pomarine Skua
43. Great Black-backed Gull
44. Glaucous Gull -
45. Lesser Black-backed Gull
46. Herring Gull
47. Black-headed Gull
48. Kittiwake - Black-legged Kittiwake
49. Arctic Tern
50. Guillemot
51. Brunnich’s Guillemot
52. Razorbill – Razorbill
53. Puffin - Atlantic Puffin
54. Black Guillemot
55. Pigeon - Rock Pigeon
56. White Wagtail - White Wagtail
57. Meadow Pipit - Meadow Pipit
58. Wren - Winter Wren
59. Redwing
60. Blackbird
61. Wheatear - Northern Wheatear
62. Raven - Common Raven
63. Starling - European Starling
64. Redpoll - Arctic/Icelandic Redpoll
65. Snow Bunting - Snow Bunting
66. Pochard
67. Tufted Duck