Eagle is graceful and puffin sweet
« Patience is an important virtue of birding and also going to the platform without any expectations. The best picture often comes unexpectedly and the moment is valuable, » says Daniel Bergmann, photographer and writer.
He is the author of the Yearbook of the Icelandic Touring Association 2025 which was published these days. These books are a series of publications that in history all the way back to 1928; Unique sources on nature, land and history. Usually, individual territories are discussed in the Yearbooks of the IA, except what the book of 1939 deals with birds in Iceland, as is the case again now. Birds and birds, is the title of the new book, which is 320 pages; written by Daniel who also took the vast majority of pictures.
Climbing strips and elrigs
A total of about 80 bird species in Iceland and about a dozen are then traveling or winter guests. Therefore, the actual bird flag of the country includes less than 100 species. With the weather and winds, a number of tides have been transmitted here every year; For example, climbing strips, masonry and elr -ropes, to name a few random. In total, it is seen in Iceland on either side of 200 species each year. This is well known to Daniel, who has been watching the country’s nature and bird life for decades.
« I started watching nature and taking pictures about 40 years ago and immediately found myself in it. Was actually in front of all kinds of photography projects, but around the turn of the century I decided to devote myself to natural photography, which is my half life, » Daniel dwelt in Stykkishólmur. There, his home is in a good viewing place in town, which is often seen in the ocean.
Iceland’s honor is taught to Falcons.
Photo/Daniel Bergmann
« Arnar pairs nest in the islands in Breiðafjörður, some of them are close to the island, and sometimes this king can see the birds hovering over the town. It is graceful to see and now I pretend to know that the assan is on the nests, after having an unusual one in the spring. The other.
A hundred places suitable
The new yearbook tells a total of about 100 places in the country that are suitable for bird watching. In the capital area, in this connection, among other things, from Elliðavatn at Heidmörk, Hvaleyrarón in Hafnarfjordur, Kastústjörn in Álftanes, Kópavogslækur, Vatnsmýri and Grafarvogur in Reykjavik and Leirvogur in Mosfellsbær. So it is continued and about interesting places to look at birds all around the country. These include Arnarstapi in Snæfellsnes, Flatey in Breiðafjörður, Látrabjarg, Vigur in Djúpi, Kálfshamarsvík in Skaga, Kjarnaskóg near Akureyri and Hrísey in Eyjafjörður, which is the Greenland of the Rug. So you can continue and look to the Sunni sands, where the shore holds itself and in the Islands it is sung around the grove as the sweet birds.
The migratory birds that come here in the spring are about 20 million, so the number is great. However, it should be noted that they have decreased significantly in recent decades, for example the puffin. Changes in marine life and fewer herring have caused about two million birds in the breeding stock of puffins in Iceland, but they were estimated to be 4-5 million over 20 years ago, according to Daniel.
In many consciousness, the lagoon is the bird.
Photo/Daniel Bergmann
The presence of the tundra
« I find it most interesting to form the high Nordic birds that are here in the southern boundaries of their distribution. About the Arctic.
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