Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
About the Snow Bunting
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.
A real field recording of the Snow Bunting. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
3 recordings on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×2 · CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 554 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- McKay's BuntingPlectrophenax hyperboreusprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.