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BIRD WATCHING in
Husavik North Iceland
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Binoculars are to be found in
every cottage at Kaldbakur
The cottages at
Kaldbakur are
situated close to a lake, that is an outfall from the geothermal
electricity plant, which supplies Husavik with
electricity.
The cottages sit just above a major netsting area for birds.
There is a beautiful bird sanctuary between the cottages and the fjord
with walking trails throughout.
Our Lakes
on eBird
Birdingpal.org The
Icelandic Birderpage
NewsNEW! NEW! The Birdwatchers Pages. Professional list of all the birds seen on the lake or close to the lake at KALDBAKUR and when they have been seen and news from the local birders |
| Here below are the birds (92 species) that you can expect to see at the Kaldbaks-lake and the land close to the cottages: |
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American
Wigeon
Arctic
Tern
Barnacle Goose Barrow's Goldeneye Black Guillemot Black Tern Black-headed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Black-tailed Godwit Blackcap Bonaparte's Gull Common Chiffchaff Common Eider Common Goldeneye Common Greenshank Common House-Martin Common Loon Common Merganser Common Raven Common Redpoll Common Redshank Common Ringed Plover Common Scoter Common Snipe Common Wood-Pigeon Dovekie Dunlin Eurasian Blackbird Eurasian Coot Eurasian Moorhen Eurasian Oystercatcher |
Eurasian Wigeon Eurasian Woodcock Eurasian Wren European Golden-Plover Fieldfare Gadwall Garganey Glaucous Gull Gray Heron Graylag Goose Great Black-backed Gull Great Cormorant Great Skua Greater Scaup Green-winged Teal Gyrfalcon Harlequin Duck Herring Gull Horned Grebe Iceland Gull Jack Snipe Lesser Black-backed Gull Little Gull Long-tailed Duck Long-tailed Jaeger Mallard Meadow Pipit Merlin Mew Gull Mute Swan Northern Fulmar |
Northern
Lapwing Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Northern Wheatear Parasitic Jaeger Pink-footed Goose Pomarine Jaeger Purple Sandpiper Red Knot Red Phalarope Red-breasted Merganser Red-necked Phalarope Redwing Rock Ptarmigan Ross's Gull Ruddy Turnstone Ruff Sanderling Short-eared Owl Sky Lark Snow Bunting Solitary Sandpiper Song Thrush Tufted Duck Water Rail Whimbrel White Wagtail White-tailed Eagle Whooper Swan |
| Iceland
is one of the major breeding grounds of waterfowls in Europe, and Lake
M?vatn is renowned for its abundance of waterfowl. There are no fewer
than 16 species of ducks known to nest in Iceland, including two
American species; Barrow's Goldeneye and the harlequin duck. Two
nesting species and three passage migrants represent the geese. Iceland
is one of few places where the whooper swan is still a common breeding
bird. It is most numerous on lakes lying on the borders of the central
highlands. On the towering bird cliffs along the coast of Iceland, the most important sea birds are the common guillemot, Brunnich's guillemot, the razorbill, the puffin, the kittiwake, the fulmar, and the gannet. The puffins, however, by no means strictly a cliff-breeding bird as it also forms huge colonies on low-lying grassy islands. It is one of the most common Icelandic bird species with a population running into millions The most celebrated of all Icelandic birds is the Icelandic falcon, which in former times enjoyed a great reputation amongst falconers. The huge white-tailed eagle was formerly fairly common, but now it has been reduced to such an extent that grave concern must be felt for its future. Two species of owl inhabit Iceland. The snowy owl, which is extremely rare, was restricted to certain wild parts of the central highlands. The short-eared owl is found in low-lying moorland and valleys. The short-eared owl preys on field mice and small birds, while the snowy owl, like the falcon, usually preys on the ptarmigan, which are the country's only gallinaceous bird and also its most important game bird |
| Here below are some useful links to Icelandic birds and wildlife: |
| photographs of birds |
Icelandic birds links |
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paintings of birds |
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| geography | ||
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list of Icelandic birds
NATURE WORLD WIDE |
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| Icelandic birds |