Identification guide to Icelandic birds featuring over 500 colour photographs. Text covers order, family, habits and identifying features of Icelandic birds along with habitat, breeding areas, population, clutch size, incubation period. Full descriptions are also given, describing variations in plumage by season and age, bill feet, eyes, flight, wingspan, length and weight, behaviour, and calls. Eggs of Icelandic breeding birds are shown in real size and nests and yound are also shown.