Bird Watching

The rich bird life of the North, distributed over widely varying habitats, displays a diversity seldom surpassed in Iceland. Wetlands are important as a habitat for many Icelandic breeding species, and of the Icelandic wetlands which are famed for rich bird life, several of the most renowned are in North Iceland.
Mývatn lake and the nearby Laxá river are home to more duck species than any other place in the world, while examples of other wetlands include Svarfaðardalur and the islets at the mouth of Eyjafjarðará. Some well-known bird cliffs are located in the North, such as at Grímsey, Rauðinúpur and Langanes, besides the islands of Lundey in Skjálfandi and Mánáreyjar just eastwards, with their large puffin colonies. Skoruvíkurbjarg is one of the best places in Iceland to see Guillemots at nesting site and the best place to see the Northern Gannet. The cliffs at Langanes hosts hundreds of thousands of the auks and guillemots of Iceland, including the uncommon Brunnich’s Guillemot.
The seaward end of the peninsula off which these islands lie, Tjörnes, has abundant puffins at points where it is easy to approach and observe them.
See www.birdingiceland.is for more info.
Langanes Private Tours
Hótel Tindastóll - Arctichotels
Birds Museum Sigurgeir
Strýtan Divecenter
Reykir Reykjastrond Guesthouse
Arctic Sea Tours
Guesthouse Gullsól
Imagine Iceland Travel
Hofsstaðir Hotel
Jón Þór Benediktsson / The Traveling Viking
Hotel Mikligarður - Arctichotels
Arctic Trip
Gentle Giants Whale Watching
Scandinavia Travel North
Geo Travel Iceland
Hofsós Camping Ground
Nonni Travel
NW Adventures ehf.
Others
- Smiðjuteigur 7
- 641 Húsavík
- 464-3940, 464-3941
- Meistaravellir 11
- 107 Reykjavík
- 696-0171, 696-0171
- Hjaltadalur
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- 455-6333
- Reykjarhóll
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- Hegranesi
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- Hofsstaðir
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- Kaldbakur
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- Brekkulækur
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- 451-2938
- Oddeyrarbót 2 / Torfunesbryggja
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- 497-1000
- Garðarsbraut 79
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