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Iceland’s unofficial mascot is the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica)—that adorably stout, tuxedo-clad seabird with a too-big orange beak and beady black eyes. Some 10 million puffins summer in Iceland—the largest population of any country on earth. They usually arrive in Iceland in April/May, then take off again at summer’s end—making the window for seeing them quite short.

The biggest puffin populations (about one million) are in the Westman Islands; along the South Coast (particularly around the Dyrhólaey promontory, and farther east, at Ingólfshöfði cape); in the northeast an hour be...