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: Eric Post, Eva Beyen, Pernille Sporon Bøving, R. Conor Higgins, Christian John, Jeff Kerby, Christian Pedersen, David A. Watts
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2019
• Subjects: arctic; phenology; nesting; climate; warming; green-up timing; envir; geo; Arctic; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; Lapland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2018-0031; https://doaj.org/article/0f8c8e15872f4c73917eab479bce80e3

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...