A Subfossil Lapland Bunting Calcarius lapponicus Feather from Volvedal, North Greenland
- 28 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Ornis Scandinavica
- Vol. 17 (1) , 75-77
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3676755
Abstract
Subfossil feathers are rarely recorded though they have a high preservation potential in peat deposits. In the lower part of a moss peat deposit from North Greenland a very well preserved feather was found and identified as originating from a Lapland Bunting on the basis of the structure of the downy barbules and on its pigmentation pattern. The age of the feather is 6000 to 8000 yr; it represents the oldest known bird from Greenland.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- 14C-dating of samples collected during the 1979 expedition to North GreenlandRapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse, 1982
- An extensive subfossil deposit of the arctic moss Aplodon wormskioldiiCanadian Journal of Botany, 1978