Plectrophenax nivalis ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: CALCARIIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
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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 of a snowstorm.
Snowbird Season. Story and photographs in Living Bird magazine.