The Snow Bunting was @SpeciesofUK from 23rd
December 2013 to 5th January 2014.
Snow
buntings are small birds that breed mainly in the Arctic and migrate south in
the winter.[1]
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| Snow Bunting [Flickr Creative Commons © foxypar4] |
In the
UK, we have a large wintering population of snow buntings and we are also lucky
enough to have a small summer breeding population, in the Cairngorms of
Scotland.[2] Snow buntings
have been described as “possibly the most romantic and elusive bird in the
British Isles.”[3]
