Snow bunting

Snow bunting
Male in breeding plumage, Thule, Greenland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Calcariidae
Genus: Plectrophenax
Species:
P. nivalis
Binomial name
Plectrophenax nivalis
  Breeding
  Migration
  Year-round
  Nonbreeding
Synonyms
  • Emberiza nivalis Linnaeus, 1758
  • Passerina nivalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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.[2]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Plectrophenax nivalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22721043A89345729. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22721043A89345729.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Sandberg, R.; Pettersson, J. (1996). "Magnetic orientation of snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis), a species breeding in the high Arctic: passage migration through temperate-zone areas". Journal of Experimental Biology. 199 (9): 1899–1905. doi:10.1242/jeb.199.9.1899. PMID 9319809.

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