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I spent 11-22 August of this year in Greenland, working in streams and rivers draining the Greenland Ice Sheet (above). Our base was Kangerluusuaq, a view of which is shown in the photo below. I managed to find time for some birding, mainly looking for gulls but also taking an interest in the Redpolls.
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A view of Kangerluusuaq.
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The edge of Greenland Ice sheet; impressive!
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The town dump has lots of white-winged gulls: here a mixture of Glaucous and Iceland.
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1cy Iceland Gull
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1cy Peregrine
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Lapland Buntings were very common
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There is of course a lot of interest in Redpoll ID and taxonomy, so this selection of Greenland Redpolls,
photographed in Greenland, may be useful.
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