Longspurs, Snow Buntings

Snow Bunting

Plectrophenax nivalis

The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) is a 42 g grassland bird that eats mostly seeds. It migrates.

Family

Longspurs, Snow Buntings

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

42 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Plants and seeds

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

34

Recorded in United States, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Iceland, Finland, SJ, Russia, France, Estonia, Germany, Greenland, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Ireland, Czechia, BM, Åland, Italy, Ukraine, Japan, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Lithuania, Latvia, Isle of Man, Belarus, China, Austria, Switzerland.

Where to see it: Ilulissat (Greenland); Sisimiut (Greenland); Nuuk (Greenland); Longyearbyen (Svalbard and Jan Mayen); Nanortalik (Greenland).

Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist