{"product_id":"birds-of-greenland-an-annotated-and-updated-checklist-hardcover","title":"Birds of Greenland: An Annotated and Updated Checklist - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Boertmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreenland is home to 58 species of annually breeding birds, with about 50 more non-breeding species occurring regularly. To these numbers can be added a large number of visitors and vagrants, and if these are included, a total of 269 species of birds have been recorded in Greenland. Following a brief introduction to Greenland's history, politics, climate, and geography, and a description of Greenland's ornithology, this annotated and updated checklist records the occurrence of all the bird species encountered in Greenland up to May 2026. Distribution maps are presented for the regularly breeding species, based on the author's own observations as well as published and unpublished accounts from Greenland, totalling more than 13,000 records. Since the previous list issued by the author in 1994, three species have established viable breeding populations in Greenland. In addition, vagrants have been recorded from as far away as the Pacific, Mongolia, Southeast Europe and the subtropical US. The occurrence of new vagrants such as these in Greenland may be related to climate change. The taxonomy is updated according to international practice, which means that several subspecies from the previous list now are treated as species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Boertmann is a retired senior biologist from Aarhus University, department of Ecoscience. He has studied birds in Greenland since 1974 and published books and numerous scientific papers on this topic, besides papers on bowhead whales, muskoxen and fungi. He has also worked as advisor to the Greenland authorities in environmental issues related to petroleum and mineral exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46813588259013,"sku":"9788775976737","price":91.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/cmHynbBuKn9788775976737.webp?v=1787753342","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/birds-of-greenland-an-annotated-and-updated-checklist-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}