page_title: List of birds of the Faroe Islands
section_title: Sulidae
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of the Faroe Islands / List of birds / Suliformes / Sulidae
context_page_description: In the Faroe Islands there are currently about 110 different species of birds although, including vagrants. During the last 150 years, over 260 species have been recorded. There are about 40 common breeding birds, including the seabirds fulmar, puffin, storm petrel, black-legged kittiwake, guillemot, Manx shearwater.
  Symbolically, the most important of the birds of the Faroe Islands is the Eurasian oystercatcher. Their annual arrival on about 12 March is celebrated by the Faroe Islanders as the start of spring. For this reason, the tjaldur, is recognised as the national bird of the Faroes. However, in numbers, the avifauna is dominated by an estimated two million pairs of breeding seabirds of several species. There are also some resident landbirds and many regular visitors, both passage migrants and breeders, as well as several species recorded occasionally as vagrants, mainly from Europe. The Faroese postal system, the Postverk Føroya, prints stamps portraying Faroe birds. See external links.
context_section_description: Northern gannet (súla) - breeding only in Mykines with 2,000 pairs.
caption: The gannet (Morus bassanus), known as súla, is the biggest bird in the Faroe Islands.
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