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Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)

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The Snow Buntings appeared out of nowhere and stayed quite awhile at the feeders out at Hersey Lake Conservation Area in the Township of Tisdale located in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada

 

Cold and dark winter days come alive with the flurry of black-and-white Snow Buntings tumbling in flight across barren fields and lakeshores. These restless birds flock up by the hundreds in winter, scattering across Canada and the United States. Snow Buntings breed in the high Arctic among rocky crevices where their crisp white plumage blends in with the snowy landscape. In the winter they acquire rusty tones that help them blend in with their winter homes of bare ground and crop stubble.

 

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Uploaded on April 16, 2013
Taken on April 5, 2013