Plectrophenax hyperboreus / McKay's bunting (Plectrophenax hyperboreus)

Wikipedia: McKay's bunting Quelle: OTHER 1200px-Plectrophenax_hyperboreus_Bering_Land_Bridge_Visitor_Center_2.jpg
Systematik: Gattung Plectrophenax; Tribus Emberizini; Unterfamilie Emberizinae; Familie Finken (Fringillidae)
Allgemein: McKay's bunting (Plectrophenax hyperboreus) is a passerine bird in the longspur family Calcariidae. It is most closely related to the snow bunting (P. nivalis). Hybrids between the two species have been observed, leading some authorities to treat McKay's as a subspecies of snow bunting. As the Plectrophenax buntings are nested within the Calcarius clade, their closest relatives are the longspurs. McKay's bunting breeds on two islands in the Bering Sea, St. Matthew and Hall islands, and winters on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. [more]

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