Observer: Sandy Dillard

Number of Species: 27

Comments: This is when I first started working for the Joides Resolution and hadn't any vacation time built up but I still managed to get in a 1/2 day of birding. I walked all along the coast for about 10 miles or so. I still found many birds and even a rarity. This is a really great place to visit and bird. Both offshore and along the coast is really teaming with life. I don't  have any pictures for Iceland but here is the list.
 

Loon, Common Fulmar, Northern Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose, Canada Mallard Falcon, Lanner Redshank, Spotted Sandpiper, Green Stint, Little Sandpiper, Purple Ruff Oystercatcher, Eurasian Golden-Plover, European Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Glaucous Gull, Iceland Gull, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Black-headed Dovekie Dove, Rock Starling, European Wheatear, Northern Lark, Wood Wagtail, White Pipit, American Bunting, Snow

Gavia immer Fulmarus glacialis Anser albifrons Branta canadensis Anas platyrhynchos Falco biarmicus Tringa erythropus Tringa ochropus Calidris minuta Calidris maritima Philomachus pugnax Haematopus ostralegus Pluvialis apricaria Larus marinus Larus hyperboreus Larus glaucoides Larus argentatus Larus fuscus Larus ridibundus Alle alle Columba livia Sturnus vulgaris Oenanthe oenanthe Lullula arborea Motacilla alba Anthus rubescens Plectrophenax nivalis

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