{"id":2651,"date":"2024-10-23T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2024-10-22T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T09:47:50","slug":"birding-brief-autumn-iceland-northern-lights-and-birding-combo-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/birding-brief-autumn-iceland-northern-lights-and-birding-combo-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding Brief: Autumn Iceland Northern Lights and Birding Combo Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern lights and birds<\/p>\n

Our delightful autumn Iceland Northern Lights and Birds Tour, in brief<\/p>\n

\"Northern

Northern Lights Iceland 2024<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Dates<\/strong>: September 30th to October 6th<\/p>\n

Days<\/strong>: 7<\/p>\n

Overnight Destinations<\/strong> (3): Hellar, Stykkisholmur, Reykjavik<\/p>\n

Bird species<\/strong> detected: 61<\/p>\n

Northern Lights<\/strong>: Spectacular show on our northern lights cruise from Reykjavik on October 4th<\/p>\n

Waterfalls<\/strong>: Gullfoss and Skogafoss<\/p>\n

\"Skogafoss

Skogafoss waterfall, Iceland<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Scener<\/strong>y highlights: Dyrholaev headland, Kirkjufell, Gunnuhver hot springs, S\u00fagandisey Island, Arnarstapi<\/p>\n

Bird<\/strong> highlights:<\/p>\n

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  • 6 relaxed Rock Ptarmigan sheltering from the wind in a small pinewood near Stykkisholmur<\/li>\n
  • A roadside flock of Pink-footed Goose and flocks of White-fronted Goose<\/li>\n
  • Glaucous and Iceland Gulls of all ages everywhere<\/li>\n
  • Flocks of Sooty Shearwaters off the headlands<\/li>\n
  • Flocks of Purple Sandpipers and Golden Plovers<\/li>\n
  • Finding a vagrant Baird’s Sandpiper on our penultimate day<\/li>\n
  • Barrow’s Goldeneye, Harlequin Duck, Great Northern Diver, Red-throated Diver, Long-tailed Duck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    \"Pink-footed

    Pink-footed Goose flock, Iceland<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Northern lights and birds Our delightful autumn Iceland Northern Lights and Birds Tour, in brief Dates: September 30th to October 6th Days: 7 Overnight Destinations (3): Hellar, Stykkisholmur, Reykjavik Bird species detected: 61 Northern Lights: Spectacular show on our northern lights cruise from Reykjavik on October 4th Waterfalls: Gullfoss and Skogafoss Scenery highlights: Dyrholaev headland, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[356,97,352,20,357,41,101,255,100,330,355,353,354],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain","tag-autumn-birding-in-iceland","tag-bird-tour","tag-birding-in-iceland","tag-birding-in-spain","tag-birds-in-iceland","tag-iceland","tag-iceland-birding","tag-iceland-birding-tour","tag-iceland-tour","tag-northern-lights","tag-northern-lights-and-birds-tour","tag-northern-lights-iceland","tag-northern-lights-reykjavik"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-GL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}