Back درسة الثلوج Arabic درسة الثلوج ARZ Plectrophenax nivalis AST Adi şimal sərçəsi Azerbaijani Аҡбаш турғай Bashkir Сняжурка Byelorussian Снежна овесарка Bulgarian তুষার চটক Bengali/Bangla Brean-erc'h Breton Sit blanc Catalan
| Snow bunting | |
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| Male in breeding plumage, Thule, Greenland | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Calcariidae |
| Genus: | Plectrophenax |
| Species: | P. nivalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Plectrophenax nivalis | |
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Breeding Migration Year-round Nonbreeding
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The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) 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, as well as the Cape Breton Highlands. The snow bunting is the most northerly recorded passerine in the world.[2]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Plectrophenax nivalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22721043A89345729. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22721043A89345729.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Sandberg, R.; Pettersson, J. (1996). "Magnetic orientation of snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis), a species breeding in the high Arctic: passage migration through temperate-zone areas". Journal of Experimental Biology. 199 (9): 1899–1905. doi:10.1242/jeb.199.9.1899. PMID 9319809.