- The following people have greatly helped me in building this site:
Daniel Bergmann: An Icelandic nature
photographer who has contributed freely some of his pictures to my site.
Moreover, the trip he invited me to join in the summer of 2001 gave me a lot of
inside information about less common bird life on Iceland. It was a great joy
for me to photograph with him red-throated divers and to be at
Jökulsaurlon during a clear-skied midnight. A portfolio of his photography
can be found
here.
Jóhan Óli Hilmarsson:
Jóhan Óli Hilmarsson is in is own right one of the most inspiring
bird naturalist of Iceland. I was a lucky person to have met him in the "field"
of Iceland. He has been a very altruistic contribuant to my site. He is both an
excellent bird photographer as well as an inspiring organizer of
avian-ecological survey studies, as well as a proponent of sensible
land&energy usage of Iceland. Hats off!! He is also the author of the book
"Icelandic Birds Guide" (publisher: Iðunn - ISBN 9979-1-0379-5). The
efforts by Jóhan Óli and his colleagues to create wild-life
sanctuaries (nature reserves) in southern Iceland, where original lowland
wetlands are restored have to be praised.
Árni Einarsson: director of the
Mývatn Research Station. He allowed me an extensive interview in 1999
where he presented to me the ecological dynamics and the social implications of
these dynamics, of the Mývatn lake region. The site of the Mývatn
Research Station is very interesting and can be found
here.
Hörður Kristinsson
is the foremost botanist of Iceland. The
information he offered the general public on floral element on Iceland has been
one of my foremost sources on plant life on Iceland. His site on the flora of
Iceland can be found here
Ian L. Jones, of the Atlantic
Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network / Department of Biology, Memorial
University of Newfoundland, for the photo of the dovekie.
Robert Snell allowed me to use his photo
of the merlin. Alan Spellman of the
Mull island bird site was very
helpful as an intermediate. More bird photography of Robert Snell, Alan
Spellman and others can be viewed at this site.
David Faden, of the Gilbert Post for
providing me a good internal search program for my site. This search program was active on the site for many years but had to be replaced by a commercial package because the old Java-applet based software became obsolete in time.
The following persons also made special contributions to the Natural
History of Iceland Site:
* Michael Zepf for his
image of Lomatogonium rotatum
* Ruud
Schaafsma for his image of Saxifraga cotyledon
*
Arnold Jansen for his image of chickens of the
golden plover : Pluvialis apricaria
* More important than the image
contributions, both Ruud and Arnold have been most inspiring persons whose
enthousiasm for Iceland have been a stimulus for me to further develop this
site !