Site Report: Snaefellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
King Eider (Somateria spectabilis)
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King Eider (Somateria spectabilis)
Peninsula in Western Iceland
Visits
- 2021-07-09: We drove north from Reykjavik driving through a ridiculously long tunnel before arriving at some town with a gas station. We met a couple of people there who had gone much closer to the volcano than we did. But their photos showed some glowing fog, much better than the steaming rock in fog that we saw. They were off to climb up to some glacier.
- 2021-07-10:
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (26 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(26 records)
Class: Birds
(25 records)
- Order: Anseriformes (5 records)
- Order: Pelicans
(8 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
- Family: Loons
- Common Loon (Gavia immer)
- Family: Oystercatchers
- Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
- Common Redshank (Tringa totanus)
- Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
- Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
- Eurasian Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
- Order: Perching Birds
(3 records)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Common Raven (Corvus corax)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
- White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(8 records)
- Family: Auks, Murres, Guillemots, and Puffins
- Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica)
- Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
- Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
- European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
- Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
- Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)
- Family: Plovers
- European Golden-Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
- Order: Tubenoses
(1 record)
- Family: Shearwaters and Petrels
- Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
Class: Mammals
(1 record)
- Order: Carnivorans
(1 record)
- Family: Canidae
- Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus)