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    Photo 1 of 6

    (c) Pavel Shukov, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 2 of 6

    (c) Donna Pomeroy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 3 of 6

    (c) Taylor Justason, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Donna Pomeroy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 5 of 6

    (c) Marc Faucher, all rights reserved

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    Photo 6 of 6

    (c) Greg Lasley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Snow Bunting

Plectrophenax nivalis

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The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), sometimes colloquially called a snowflake, 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, and also Cape Breton Highlands. The snow bunting is the...

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