Birds in the Faroe Islands

in the Faroe Islands
62°N, 7°W

	Iceland: 450 km
	Faroe Islands - North Atlantic
	Shetland: 322 km

Birds in the Faroe Islands
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From near and far

Every year many hundreds of thousands of birds come home to their breeding grounds in the Faroes. Click here to see a calendar of arrivals and departures showing some of them.

A variety of other birds, relatively few in number, from the tiny wren to the huge raven, live here permanently in spite of the challenging weather conditions and sparse food resources.

A small number of other birds stop by on their way elsewhere. Birds like the Bohemian Waxwing visit for a few days on their way south (like the tourists stopping over when travelling on the ferry Norrøna).

Here are some of them:

Artic Skua Faroese: Kjógvi
Artic Tern Faroese: Terna
Black Guilemot Faroese: Teisti
Blackbird Faroese: Kvørkveggja
Black-headed Gull Faroese: Fransaterna
Bohemian Waxwing Faroese: Reyðstapi Bombycilla garrulus
Dunlin Faroese: Fjallmurra
Eider Faroese: Æða
Fulmar Faroese: Havhestur
Gannet Faroese: Súla
Golden Plover Faroese: Lógv
Great Black-backed Gull Faroese: Svartbakur
Great Skua Faroese: Skúgvur
Guillemot Faroese: Lomvigi Uria aalge
Herring Gull Faroese: Fiskimási
Hooded Crow Faroese: Kráka