🇮🇸 Animals of Iceland

The Arctic fox is a small fox of the tundra with the best insulating fur of any mammal.

The Atlantic puffin is a small black and white seabird with a bright triangular bill.

The Atlantic salmon hatches in a river, grows up at sea, and returns to the same river to spawn.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.

The common loon is a heavy diving bird of northern lakes, with a black head, a white necklace and a dagger bill.

The fin whale is the second longest animal alive and one of the fastest of the great whales.

The great auk was a large flightless seabird of the North Atlantic that swam with its wings and caught fish under water.

The gyrfalcon is the biggest of all falcons, and it hunts across the Arctic tundra.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

The orca is the largest dolphin and the top predator of the sea.

The razorbill is a black and white North Atlantic auk with a deep, blade-like bill.

The reindeer, called the caribou in North America, is the deer of the Arctic tundra and the northern forests.

The rock ptarmigan is a grouse of high mountains and Arctic tundra that changes colour with the seasons.

The sperm whale is the biggest of the toothed whales and the largest predator with teeth.