Unusual late July observation of a fledgling Lapland longspur in low Arctic Greenland following the cool spring of 2018

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Post, Eric, Beyen, Eva, Bøving, Pernille Sporon, Higgins, R. Conor, John, Christian, Kerby, Jeff, Pedersen, Christian, Watts, David A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2019
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; General Environmental Science; Arctic; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; Lapland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/as-2018-0031; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/as-2018-0031; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/as-2018-0031

We report an observation of a flightless fledgling Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus (Linnaeus, 1758)) at a long-term study site near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, in late July 2018. Based on our observations of longspur nests at the site dating back to 1993, we estimate that the fledgling observed...