Ornithological observations in Southern Peary Land, North Greenland, 1973

• Main Author: Meltofte, Hans
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Kommissionen for Videnskabelige Undersøgelser i Grønland 1976
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Jørgen Brønlund Fjord; Peary; Peary Land; Branta bernicla; Calidris canutus; North Greenland
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland/article/view/141486

The present paper is a report on one summer's work at Jørgen Brønlund Fjord in Southern Peary Land, the Northern most part of Greenland. The main project was a census of breeding waders and observations of their breeding biology. It was found that some species, e.g. the waders, breed earlier ar...