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 right 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 northeastern 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.

Male Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus, Vardø 4 June 2005.