Snow Bunting (Winter) © Sue Tranter

Vagrant to Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska), Greece, Luxembourg, Malta, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, North Korea, Serbia, Turkey.

• nivalis (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Breeds in northern North America from St Lawrence I and coast of Alaska (including eastern Aleutian Is) eastern across northern Canada (south to northern Yukon, north-western Mackenzie, central Northwest Territories, central Nunavut, Southampton I, Belcher Is, northern Quebec and northern Labrador) to coasts of Greenland, and northern Scotland, Svalbard, and mountains of western and northern Fennoscandia east to Kola Peninsula. Non-breeding from south-western Alaska and southern Canada (north-western British Columbia east to Manitoba, Ontario, southern Labrador and Newfoundland) southern in USA to north-western California, Utah, northern New Mexico, Kansas, Ohio and Virginia (occasionally farther southern on Atlantic coast) and, in Palearctic, British Is and northern France east to southern Scandinavia, Germany, Poland and southern European Russia (occasionally south to Mediterranean and east to Asia Minor).
• insulae Salomonsen, 1931   -  Iceland, possibly also northern Scotland. Non-breeding occasionally south to Faeroe Is and Shetland Is.
• vlasowae Portenko, 1937   -  Breeds north-eastern European Russia east through Siberia (including Severnaya Zemlya, New Siberian Is and Wrangel I) to Bering Strait and south to northern Shelekhova Gulf and eastern Kamchatka. Non-breeding in central and eastern Asia south to northern Caspian region, Altai, Mongolia, Transbaikalia, north-eastern China, Sakhalin I, Kuril Is, occasionally to northern Japan (Hokkaido) and Korea.
• townsendi Ridgway, 1887   -  Commander Is, Pribilofs, and Aleutian Is.

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BirdLife International For more information about the Snow Bunting see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet. Articles about the Snow Bunting If you would like to read any articles about the Snow Bunting... Show Articles (0) No Pictures of Snow Bunting If Birdpedia has no pictures of Snow Bunting or you would like to see more, then try the following...       From BING (6) No Videos of Snow Bunting If Birdpedia has no videos of Snow Bunting or you would like to see more, then try the following..       From BING (0) Where can I observe this species? Select an area (or leave blank) to see locations where this species has been recorded. Area   LAND OCEAN   All    Optional: Complete the following if you wish to restrict the reserve to within a given distance of a location. Please enter the Latitude and Longitiude of a given location together with the maximum distance (km) to display a list of reserves within that distance. You must enter a Latitude, a Longitude and a distance greater than 0.   Latitude: (Decimal degrees takes precedence) Deg Min Sec     Decimal degrees (Include compass setting or value)          N S or   GPS help Longitude: (Decimal degrees takes precedence) Deg Min Sec     Decimal degrees (Include compass setting or value)          E W or   Find GPS using Google Maps Distance Bearing     N NE E SE S SW W NW Get Sample GPS readings On What Field Trips was this species observed? Select an area (or leave blank), and a date range, to see field trips on which this species has been recorded. Area   LAND OCEAN   All    From To     Optional: Complete the following if you wish to restrict the reserve to within a given distance of a location. Please enter the Latitude and Longitiude of a given location together with the maximum distance (km) to display a list of reserves within that distance. You must enter a Latitude, a Longitude and a distance greater than 0.   Latitude: (Decimal degrees takes precedence) Deg Min Sec     Decimal degrees (Include compass setting or value)          N S or   GPS help Longitude: (Decimal degrees takes precedence) Deg Min Sec     Decimal degrees (Include compass setting or value)          E W or Distance Bearing     N NE E SE S SW W NW Get Sample GPS readings Latest Sightings for Snow Bunting Select the Area to restrict the Sightings. Area   LAND OCEAN   All