As a few green shoots popped up in intertidal meadows and along the beach fringes in the middle of March, a welcome avian harbinger of spring arrived: a small flock of snow buntings foraged among the ...

We are part of The Trust Project. The scarcity of pine siskins reminds us that the appearance of many northern birds is unpredictable here. Some years, yes; some years, no or nearly so. This is true ...

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 ...

If country roads had birds to represent them the way states and nations do, then surely the snow bunting would be among the birds to represent North Dakota's roads. Probably everyone who's ever driven ...

Even though we haven’t seen much snow in the Inland Northwest this winter, we’ve gotten plenty of snowflakes. Snow buntings are nicknamed snowflakes for their whitish color and the way they flutter ...

While visiting the Flathead, snow buntings are most easily identified in flight by their large white wing patches. The wintering male is white overall with a buff, streaked back, a white rump patch, ...

The snow bunting is another of November's emblematic birds. Like other November birds -- rough-legged hawk, snowy owl, tree sparrow -- the snow bunting is a visitor. Unlike the others, it spends the ...

I don’t want any trouble, Chris, “What are you looking at?” is usually a line heard in a movie, just before a barroom brawl breaks out. But in this case, it was a friendly inquiry from Chris, whom I ...

“When winter storms sweep across the land these birds blow in like true snowflakes and settle down on wind-blown hillsides and benchlands to feed upon the weed stalks that rise above the snow. They ...

Texans got a rare present on Christmas Eve when a bird of the high Arctic, a snow bunting, appeared at Isla Blanca Park on South Padre Island. Since record keeping began, the bird has shown up on ...

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Of all the arctic birds that invade Maine every winter, snow buntings have got to be among the cutest. Snow buntings nest on the tundra along the Arctic Circle, where it is barely warm enough in ...