snow buntings
White winter finches
Snow buntings is the plural of snow bunting, a small Arctic songbird with striking black-and-white plumage.
These ground-nesting birds breed in the high Arctic and migrate south in winter, when large flocks descend on open fields and shorelines: A flock of snow buntings swept across the frozen stubble.
- snowbirdCold-weather escapee heading south
- ptarmiganArctic ground bird
- white plumageBird's colorless feather covering
- winterYear's coldest quarter
- feathersBird's lightweight covering
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snow buntingstropical birds
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