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461:"Biological Diversity in Iceland"
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211:Arctic char
207:brown trout
188:Arctic skua
125:house mouse
102:Polar bears
979:Categories
773:San Marino
733:Montenegro
713:Luxembourg
693:Kazakhstan
596:Azerbaijan
470:5 November
331:References
231:amphibians
196:passerines
192:great skua
146:Great skua
121:wood mouse
94:Arctic fox
61:Arctic fox
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273:grey seal
249:sea perch
164:snowy owl
152:gyrfalcon
133:black rat
129:brown rat
106:Greenland
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889:Guernsey
836:Abkhazia
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758:Portugal
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314:See also
281:dolphins
271:and the
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190:and the
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98:Walruses
71:Overview
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671:Hungary
661:Germany
656:Georgia
646:Finland
641:Estonia
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606:Belgium
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581:Andorra
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347:Iceland
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257:herring
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176:geese
172:ducks
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