Field Report 2021: Monitoring of the Peregrine Falcon population in South Greenland

• Main Authors: Knud, Falk, Møller, Søren
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Roskilde Universitet 2021
• Subjects: Vandrefalk; Peregrine Falcon; Arctic; Greenland; /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_on_land; SDG 15 - Life on Land; Falco peregrinus; peregrine falcon; vandrefalk
• Online Access: https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/publications/ba6c4edd-e88e-43b0-a8d3-8f3eb6970296; https://hdl.handle.net/1800/ba6c4edd-e88e-43b0-a8d3-8f3eb6970296; http://vandrefalk.dk/feltrap/rap2021.pdf

For six decades, the Peregrine Falcon has served as an indicator species for the environmental effects of pesticides and other contaminants. Since 1981 we have conducted annual investigations of various aspects of Peregrine (Falco peregrinus tundrius) ecology and contaminant loads in the breeding population in South Greenland.