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Snow bunting   /snoʊ bˈəntɪŋ/   Listen
Snow bunting

noun
1.
White Arctic bunting.  Synonyms: Plectrophenax nivalis, snowbird, snowflake.





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"Snow bunting" Quotes from Famous Books



... eat in a day. The number, however, must be very great. An ornithologist, upon examining the stomach of a Tree Sparrow, found it to contain seven hundred undigested pigeon-weed seeds, and in the same way it was discovered that a Snow Bunting had taken one thousand seeds of the ...
— The Bird Study Book • Thomas Gilbert Pearson
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... display any pronounced race-characters. I have early recollections of the rugged face and lovely Scotch accent of Tam Edwards, the Banffshire naturalist; and much later ones of J. Young, [24] who gave me a circumstantial account of how he found the first snow bunting's nest in Sutherlandshire; I recall the Rev. Mathew (? Mathews) of Gumley, an ardent Leicestershire ornithologist, whose friendship I gained at a tender age on discovering the nest of a red-legged partridge, from which I ...
— Alone • Norman Douglas
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Words linked to "Snow bunting" :   Plectrophenax nivalis, Plectrophenax, bunting, snowflake, genus Plectrophenax


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