Snow Bunting Photos
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Snow bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
Identification Tips:
Length: 6 inches
Short, conical bill
Large white patches in wings
Inhabits open areas: tundra, beaches, barren fields, etc
Often found in flocks
Feeds on the ground ...
Snow Bunting
For many years, throughout the short winter days, large flocks of snow buntings were a feature in the Yarmouth area.
Snow Buntings are one of the two most northerly-nesting passerines in North America, the other being Hoary Redpoll. They breed on arctic and far northern alpine tundra around the world.
Snow Buntings breed across the Arctic regions of the world, and they are migratory. In Canada, their appearance in the more southerly parts of the country heralds the approach of winter.
The Snow Bunting is a small, pale-brown-and-white bird usually found in winter by the ocean, lakes, and rivers shores, grassy fields or roadsides in North America, Alaska and northern Canada. Its breeding plumage is brilliant white and black.
Snow Bunting
(Plectrophenax nivalis)
Status: Winter Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2011
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
This bird often winters in the corn fields west of the lab.
Snow Bunting
Plectrophenax nivalis (Linnaeus)
Status Common in winter. They usually first arrive from the north in October (average 18 October, earliest 23 September).
Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Snow bunting
Snow buntings are large buntings, with striking `snowy' plumages. Males in summer have all white heads and underparts contrasting with a black mantle and wing tips. Females are a more mottled above.... More...
Yellowhammer ...
Snow Bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis
McKay's Bunting, Plectrophenax hyperboreus: The McKay's Bunting is most closely related to the Snow Bunting P. nivalis.
Snow Bunting
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Northern Cardinal
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Snow Bunting - 22 at the King Eider spot, 15 at Pulpit Rocks
Pine Grosbeak - 1 male at Odiorne Point, near the picnic area, with ~50
Cedar Waxwings ...
SNOW BUNTING, Emberiza nivalis, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iii. p. 86.
EMBERIZA NIVALIS, Bonap. Syn., p. 103.
EMBERIZA (PLECTROPHANES) NIVALIS, Snow Bunting, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 247.
Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis. Accidental. Hypothetical.
Cardinals, Saltators, and Allies - Family Cardinalidae ...
red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus), whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) chicks and juveniles, and other small birds such as wagtail (Motacilla spp.), American tree sparrow (Spizella arborea), Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus), and snow bunting ...
Snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
Chatham Island snipe (Coenocorypha pusilla)
Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
Great frigatebird (Fregata minor)
Common greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
Terek sandpiper (Xenus cinereus) ...
the American buntings are the indigo bunting, in which the summer plumage of the male reflects sunlight as a rich, metallic blue; the painted bunting, or nonpareil (Passerina ciris), with showy red, blue, and green plumage; the hardy snow bunting ...
The longspurs proved more elusive: though we found both Horned Larks and Snow Buntings, to say nothing of an "Ipswich" Savannah Sparrow we failed to find a single longspur.
Klicka J, Zink RM & Winker K. (2003). Longspurs and snow buntings: phylogeny and biogeography of a high-latitude clade (Calcarius). Mol Phylogenet Evol. vol 26, no 2. p. 165-175.
fly low and far from nest when intruder detected, or perform fluttering distraction display if intruder is close. Female renests ca. 7 days after brood fledges. Juveniles form postbreeding flocks. Winter flocks, often immense, occ with Snow Buntings, ...
Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)
Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana)
Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus)
White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) ...
Plectrophenax nivalis - Snow Bunting (photo)
Emberiza
Emberiza spodocephala - Black-faced Bunting
Emberiza leucocephala - Pine Bunting
Emberiza rustica - Rustic Bunting
Emberiza pusilla - Little Bunting ...
 See also: Sparrow, Finch, Tree sparrow, Fox, Grasshopper
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