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. In autumn and winter birds develop a sandy/buff wash to their plumage and males have more mottled upperparts.
The Snow Bunting is an Arctic specialist with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere. The breeding habitat is on tundra, treeless moors, and bare mountains. It is migratory, wintering a short distance further south in open habitats in northern temperate areas, typically on either sandy coasts, steppes, prairies, or low mountains, more rarely on farmland stubble. In winter, it forms mobile flocks.
The Snow Bunting is a very scarce breeding species in the UK and can be found on the highest mountain peaks in Scotland where they nest in rocky crevices.
Date: 13th April 2010
Location: Vardø, Varanger peninsula, Finnmark, Norway
The Snow Bunting is an Arctic specialist with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere. The breeding habitat is on tundra, treeless moors, and bare mountains. It is migratory, wintering a short distance further south in open habitats in northern temperate areas, typically on either sandy coasts, steppes, prairies, or low mountains, more rarely on farmland stubble. In winter, it forms mobile flocks.
The Snow Bunting is a very scarce breeding species in the UK and can be found on the highest mountain peaks in Scotland where they nest in rocky crevices.
Date: 13th April 2010
Location: Vardø, Varanger peninsula, Finnmark, Norway
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