Iceland: a Paradise for Birdlovers
The Six Rivers Project is a dream destination for ornithologists. We are confident that a journey to our rivers would offer sightings of many different varieties of sea, land and water birds as well as waders.
Here you can find a selection of the birds you would most likely see while fishing our salmon rivers. Many of these birds are ground nesters who lay their eggs in nests on the land beside the rivers. We manage our rivers carefully in order to limit disruption to these birds and their eggs, particularly during nesting season.
Land Birds
Arctic Tern
Sterna paradisaea CLASSIFICATION
Gyrfalcon
Falco rusticolus CLASSIFICATION
Ptarmigan
Tetrao lagopus CLASSIFICATIONWaders
Black Tailed Godwit
Limosa limosa CLASSIFICATION
Golden-Plover
Charadrius apricarius CLASSIFICATION
Redshank
Tringa totanus CLASSIFICATIONWater Birds
Elder Duck
Somateria mollissima CLASSIFICATION
Red-throated Diver
Gavia stellata CLASSIFICATION