Snow Bunting
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Emberizidae
Plectrophenax
Plectrophenax nivalis
Appropriately named, the Snow Bunting is a bird of the high Arctic and snowy winter fields. Even on a warm day, the mostly white plumage of a bunting flock evokes the image... More »
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Behavioural adaptations and breeding biology in the Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) in Svalbard; ... 80, 524-531. Manuscripts in preparation: - Mate guarding and song activity in relation to parental effort in the snow bunting Plectrophenax nivalis in Svalbard. - Does female plumage ornamentation signal...
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Snow Bunting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Snow Bunting ( Plectrophenax nivalis ), sometimes colloquially called "snowflake" , is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is an arctic specialist, with a circumpolar ...
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Snow Bunting: Medium-sized, strikingly white sparrow with black back, central tail, and wing tips. Bill, legs and feet are black. Forages on ground for seeds, insects, larvae and caterpillars. Swift flight, alternates rapidly beating wings with brief periods of wings pulled to sides. ... Snow Bunting: Breeds from Aleutians,
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Snow buntings are often the first songbirds to return to Interior Alaska each spring. McKay's buntings are similar birds that don't leave Alaska during the winter and are different ... McKay’s buntings have remained different than the snow bunting even though the species share the same body size and similar plumage.
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northwest of the snow bunting study site used by Hussell. (1972). ..... Lack D (1968) Ecological adaptations for breeding birds. Methuen, ...
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Lack D (1968) Ecological adaptations for breeding in birds. Methuen, London ... Tinbergen N (1939) The behavior of the snow bunting in spring. ...
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Lack D (1968) Ecological adaptations for breeding in birds. Methuen, London. Lyon BE, Montgomerie RD (1985) Incubation feeding in snow buntings: female ...
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The Snow Bunting, p. 1652-. 1675. In O. L. Austin [ed.], Life histories of North ... Large eyes are considered an adaptation for noctur- ...
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