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Iceland wildlife

227 species in the Iceland dex: 68 Common, 78 Uncommon, 70 Rare, 11 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#019 🦌 Walrus

#031 🐦 Eurasian Sparrowhawk

#033 🐦 Blyth's Reed Warbler

#062 🐦 Tree pipit

#072 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#149 🐦 Mute Swan

#181 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#217 🐦 American Herring Gull

#257 🐦 Citrine Wagtail

#271 🐦 Osprey

#382 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

Rare

#007 🦌 Domestic goat

#009 🦌 Horse

#016 🦌 Sowerby's Beaked Whale

#017 🦌 Common vole

#026 🦌 Ringed Seal

#041 🐦 Eurasian Skylark

#059 🐦 Eurasian Rock Pipit

#061 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#063 🐦 Common Swift

#065 🐦 Great Egret

#083 🐦 Cackling Goose

#087 🐦 Cattle Egret

#088 🐦 Bufflehead

#095 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#098 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#103 🐦 Little Stint

#106 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#108 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#110 🐦 European Goldfinch

#112 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#114 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#123 🐦 White-winged Tern

#125 🐦 European greenfinch

#129 🐦 Hen Harrier

#133 🐦 Hawfinch

#134 🐦 Western Jackdaw

#146 🐦 Black swan · introduced

#153 🐦 Yellowhammer

#154 🐦 Little Bunting

#160 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#161 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#163 🐦 Common Kestrel

#165 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#166 🐦 Red-breasted Flycatcher

#198 🐦 Mediterranean Gull

#204 🐦 Red-backed Shrike

#219 🐦 Laughing Gull

#220 🐦 Franklin's gull

#222 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#229 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#231 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#240 🐦 Black Scoter

#258 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#263 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#269 🐦 Ruddy Duck · introduced

#270 🐦 Ivory Gull

#275 🐦 Rosy Starling

#285 🐦 Common Redstart

#289 🐦 Wood Warbler

#297 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#304 🐦 Steller's Eider

#308 🐦 Dunnock

#312 🐦 Eurasian Bullfinch

#317 🐦 Ross's Gull

#318 🐦 Sand Martin

#321 🐦 Whinchat

#322 🐦 European Stonechat

#337 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#347 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#352 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#354 🐦 Barred Warbler

#356 🐦 Little Grebe

#361 🐦 Red-flanked Bluetail

#366 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#367 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#368 🐦 Common Greenshank

#369 🐦 Green sandpiper

#379 🐦 Ring Ouzel

#380 🐦 Mistle Thrush

#386 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

Uncommon

#001 🦌 Wood Mouse

#006 🦌 Wolf

#011 🦌 Grey seal

#012 🦌 Northern Bottlenose Whale

#018 🦌 American mink

#022 🦌 Red Sheep

#029 🦌 Arctic Fox

#039 🐦 Mandarin Duck · introduced

#044 🐦 Little Auk

#045 🐦 Northern Pintail

#049 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#052 🐦 Snow Goose

#066 🐦 Grey Heron

#071 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#073 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#074 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#075 🐦 Common Pochard

#079 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#081 🐦 Brent Goose

#082 🐦 Canada goose · introduced

#089 🐦 Common goldeneye

#092 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#093 🐦 Sanderling

#099 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#102 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#105 🐦 Ruff

#111 🐦 Common Rosefinch

#124 🐦 Black Tern

#126 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#137 🐦 Common Wood Pigeon

#139 🐦 Hooded crow

#150 🐦 Common house martin

#152 🐦 Little Egret

#158 🐦 European Robin

#168 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#169 🐦 Brambling

#171 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#175 🐦 Common Moorhen

#178 🐦 Black-throated Diver

#186 🐦 Common Crane

#189 🐦 White-tailed Eagle

#193 🐦 Barn Swallow

#196 🐦 Little Gull

#209 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#223 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#230 🐦 Red Crossbill

#235 🐦 Jack snipe

#236 🐦 American Wigeon

#241 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#242 🐦 Velvet Scoter

#244 🐦 Surf Scoter

#247 🐦 Smew

#256 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#260 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#261 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#273 🐦 House sparrow

#279 🐦 Red Phalarope

#286 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#288 🐦 Yellow-browed Warbler

#290 🐦 Willow Warbler

#296 🐦 American Golden Plover

#298 🐦 Grey Plover

#313 🐦 Water Rail

#323 🐦 Eurasian Woodcock

#331 🐦 King Eider

#332 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#334 🐦 Garganey

#336 🐦 Eurasian Siskin

#340 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#346 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove

#350 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#351 🐦 Garden Warbler

#353 🐦 Lesser Whitethroat

#360 🐦 Common Shelduck

#377 🐦 Song Thrush

#384 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#385 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#387 🐦 Sabine's Gull

Common

#021 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#023 🦌 Harbor Seal

#027 🦌 Reindeer · introduced

#030 🐦 Common Redpoll

#042 🐦 Razorbill

#046 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#047 🐦 Mallard

#050 🐦 Greylag Goose

#051 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#060 🐦 Meadow pipit

#070 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#076 🐦 Tufted Duck

#077 🐦 Greater scaup

#084 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#090 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#094 🐦 Dunlin

#096 🐦 Red Knot

#100 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#115 🐦 Black Guillemot

#117 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#127 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#132 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#135 🐦 Rock Dove

#138 🐦 Common Raven

#148 🐦 Whooper Swan

#159 🐦 Merlin

#167 🐦 Atlantic Puffin

#174 🐦 Common snipe

#179 🐦 Common Loon

#180 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#188 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#194 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#203 🐦 Rock Ptarmigan

#206 🐦 Herring Gull

#208 🐦 Mew Gull

#210 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#212 🐦 Iceland Gull

#213 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#214 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#224 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#237 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#238 🐦 Gadwall

#243 🐦 Common Scoter

#248 🐦 Goosander

#249 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#254 🐦 Northern Gannet

#255 🐦 White Wagtail

#262 🐦 Whimbrel

#266 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#277 🐦 European Shag

#278 🐦 Great Cormorant

#280 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#293 🐦 Snow Bunting

#295 🐦 European Golden Plover

#299 🐦 Horned Grebe

#316 🐦 Goldcrest

#319 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#330 🐦 Common Eider

#339 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#341 🐦 Great Skua

#344 🐦 Arctic Tern

#348 🐦 Common Starling

#371 🐦 Common Redshank

#372 🐦 Winter Wren

#374 🐦 Redwing

#375 🐦 Common Blackbird

#378 🐦 Fieldfare

#383 🐦 Common Murre

Vagrants

144

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#032 🐦 Paddyfield Warbler

#034 🐦 Marsh Warbler

#035 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#036 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#037 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#038 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#040 🐦 Wood Duck

#043 🐦 Common Kingfisher

#048 🐦 American Black Duck

#053 🐦 Emperor Goose

#054 🐦 Bean Goose

#055 🐦 Bar-headed Goose · introduced

#056 🐦 Ross's Goose

#057 🐦 Tundra Bean Goose

#058 🐦 Olive-backed Pipit

#064 🐦 Pacific Swift

#067 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#068 🐦 Purple Heron

#069 🐦 Squacco Heron

#078 🐦 Ferruginous Duck

#080 🐦 Eurasian Bittern

#085 🐦 Red-breasted Goose

#086 🐦 Snowy Owl

#091 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#097 🐦 Broad-billed Sandpiper

#101 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#104 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#107 🐦 Red-necked stint

#109 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#113 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#116 🐦 Little Ringed Plover

#118 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#119 🐦 Eurasian dotterel

#120 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#121 🐦 Killdeer

#122 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#128 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#130 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#131 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#136 🐦 Stock Dove

#140 🐦 Carrion Crow

#141 🐦 Rook

#142 🐦 Common Quail

#143 🐦 Corn Crake

#144 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#145 🐦 Eastern Subalpine Warbler

#147 🐦 Tundra Swan

#151 🐦 Great Spotted Woodpecker

#155 🐦 Rustic Bunting

#156 🐦 Reed Bunting

#157 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#162 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#164 🐦 Red-footed Falcon

#170 🐦 American Coot

#173 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#176 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#177 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#182 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#183 🐦 Black-winged Pratincole

#184 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#185 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#187 🐦 Canary Islands Oystercatcher

#190 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#191 🐦 Icterine Warbler

#192 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#197 🐦 Caspian Tern

#199 🐦 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

#200 🐦 Little Bittern

#201 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#202 🐦 Willow Ptarmigan

#205 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#207 🐦 Caspian Gull

#211 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#215 🐦 Yellow-legged Gull

#216 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#218 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#221 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#225 🐦 Common Linnet

#226 🐦 River Warbler

#227 🐦 Lanceolated warbler

#228 🐦 Common Grasshopper Warbler

#232 🐦 Parrot Crossbill

#233 🐦 Common Nightingale

#234 🐦 Bluethroat

#239 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#245 🐦 Stejneger's Scoter

#246 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#250 🐦 European Bee-eater

#251 🐦 Pygmy Cormorant

#252 🐦 Black Kite

#253 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#259 🐦 Dark-sided Flycatcher

#264 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#267 🐦 Pied Wheatear

#268 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#272 🐦 Great Tit

#274 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#276 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#281 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#282 🐦 Common Pheasant

#283 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#284 🐦 Black Redstart

#287 🐦 Hume's Leaf Warbler

#291 🐦 Great Auk

#292 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#294 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#300 🐦 Great Crested Grebe

#301 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#302 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#303 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#305 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#306 🐦 Sora

#307 🐦 Spotted Crake

#314 🐦 Pied Avocet

#315 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#320 🐦 Siberian Stonechat

#324 🐦 Northern Parula

#325 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#326 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#327 🐦 American Redstart

#328 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#329 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#333 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#335 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#338 🐦 South Polar Skua

#342 🐦 Roseate Tern

#343 🐦 Common Tern

#345 🐦 Little Tern

#349 🐦 Brown Booby

#355 🐦 Ancient Murrelet

#357 🐦 Tree Swallow

#358 🐦 Alpine Swift

#359 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#362 🐦 Black-browed Albatross

#363 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#364 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

#365 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#370 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#373 🐦 Black-throated Thrush

#376 🐦 American Robin

#381 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#388 🐦 Mourning Dove

#389 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#390 🐦 White's Thrush

Marine

Seen offshore.

#002 🦌 Minke Whale

#003 🦌 Sei Whale

#004 🦌 Blue whale

#005 🦌 Fin Whale

#008 🦌 Common Dolphin

#010 🦌 Long-finned pilot whale

#013 🦌 Atlantic White-sided Dolphin

#014 🦌 White-beaked Dolphin

#015 🦌 Humpback Whale

#020 🦌 Killer Whale

#024 🦌 Harbor porpoise

#025 🦌 Sperm Whale

#028 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#172 🐦 Northern Fulmar

#195 🐦 European Storm-Petrel

#265 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#309 🐦 Great Shearwater

#310 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#311 🐦 Manx Shearwater