Snow Bunting
Plectrophenax nivalis
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 13,884
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) is a passerine bird in the family Calcariidae. It is an Arctic specialist, with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere. There are small isolated populations on a few high mountain tops south of the Arctic region, including the Cairngorms in central Scotland and the Saint Elias Mountains on the southern Alaska-Yukon border, as well as the Cape Breton Highlands. The snow bunting is the most northerly recorded passerine in the world.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Snow bunting”.