Fieldwork with Red-throated Pipit

Male Red-.throated Pipit Anthus cervinus, Vardø 2 June 2005.

Female Red-.throated Pipit Anthus cervinus, Vardø 3 June 2005.

Variation in four different adult male Red-.throated Pipit Anthus cervinus chest spotting, Vardø 3 June 2005. Upper left picture show a more than average spotted bird, while lower left is in the opposite part of the range.

I was invited to assist professor Göran Högstedt in field data collection to his studies on Red-throated Pipits in the most northern part of Norway - Vardø. The aim of the trip was to trap territorial male birds and ring them individually. The birds would be followed up by Göran later the same season.

Red-.throated Pipit breeding habitat, Vardø 3 June 2005.