In 2017, researcher Sunny Tseng traveled from her home in Taiwan to the Arctic tundra to record the calls of the birds that breed there. She learned that navigating the wind-blown, marshy tundra is no easy task. Yet Tseng found and recorded one of her target birds: the Ross’s Gull, a rare, rosy-pink gull that nests on the tundra.

Hear more about the birds of the Siberian tundra, and hear the birds themselves, on the Threatened podcast. Learn more at BirdNote.org.