What Does a Snow Bunting Look Like? White feathers with rusty accents help snow buntings blend right into a winter landscape. Look for these buntings foraging in flocks for weed seeds in fields or ...

A painted bunting sports a jaw-dropping rainbow of colors. Learn what the male and female looks like, what the bird eats and ...

Every year around this time a diminutive and delicate-looking bird, about the size of a common house sparrow, shows up in small groups at North Point State Park in Baltimore County, on the shores of ...

PAXSON — Spring seems early this year. The snow cover was light in most areas, and unseasonably high temperatures the last week of March melted snow around the base of bushes, trees or anything dark.

The snow bunting breeds in the high Arctic, on the coastlines of north and south Alaska and in the northern Hudson Bay areas, during the spring and summer months. According to allaboutbirds.com, the ...

Steve Coari sent this photo of a snow bunting that he took last weekend at Tom’s Cove at Chincoteague. Be on the lookout for these pretty little birds. Though snow buntings nest on the Arctic tundra, ...

A group of scientists have tried to determine how snow bunting populations are linked in space and time. Considering that the snow bunting poses an extra challenge to monitor due to its inaccessible ...

Buffering the northern shores of Greenland, 3,000 miles north of Columbus, is the world’s largest national park. Northeast Greenland National Park covers 375,000 square miles — an area larger than ...

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On a beautiful sunny day in late November, I patrolled the western shore of Lake Mille Lacs, looking beyond the ice rimming the shoreline to scan for lingering waterfowl. Wind had blown some of the ...

Snow buntings are equipped for winter even while migrating to their breeding grounds, shows a recent study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. There have been major declines in biodiversity around ...