Snow bunting, the Glossary
The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) is a passerine bird in the family Calcariidae.[1]
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101 relations: Alaska, Amaranth, Amaranthaceae, American Ornithological Society, Ancient Greek, Arctic, Arctic Circle, Arctic oscillation, Asteraceae, Beringia, Bilberry, Binomial nomenclature, Biological specificity, Bird, Bird migration, Bistorta, Breeding in the wild, Bunting (bird), Butterfly, Cairngorms, Calcariidae, Canada, Cape Breton Highlands, Carl Linnaeus, Central Asia, Climate, Common raven, Cyperaceae, Dryas octopetala, Earth's magnetic field, Ellesmere Island, Embryo, Empetrum nigrum, Europe, Family (biology), Finch, Finn Salomonsen, Fitness (biology), Flock (birds), Fly, Foraging, Franz Josef Land, Genus, Germany, Goldenrod, Greenland, Hemiptera, Horned lark, Hybrid (biology), Iceland, ... Expand index (51 more) »
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Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
Amaranth
Amaranthus is a cosmopolitan group of more than 50 species which make up the genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths.
Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus Amaranthus.
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American Ornithological Society
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
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Arctic oscillation
The Arctic oscillation (AO) or Northern Annular Mode/Northern Hemisphere Annular Mode (NAM) is a weather phenomenon at the Arctic pole north of 20 degrees latitude.
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Asteraceae
Asteraceae is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales.
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Beringia
Beringia is defined today as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72° north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Bilberry
Bilberries or blueberries are Eurasian low-growing shrubs in the genus Vaccinium in the flowering plant family Ericaceae that bear edible, dark blue berries.
Binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Biological specificity
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
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Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Bird migration
Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.
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Bistorta
Bistorta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae.
Breeding in the wild
Breeding in the wild is the natural process of animal reproduction occurring in the natural habitat of a given species.
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Bunting (bird)
The buntings are a group of Old World passerine birds forming the genus Emberiza, the only genus in the family Emberizidae.
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Butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight.
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Cairngorms
The Cairngorms (Am Monadh Ruadh) are a mountain range in the eastern Highlands of Scotland closely associated with the mountain Cairn Gorm.
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Calcariidae
Calcariidae is a small family of passerine birds.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Cape Breton Highlands
The Cape Breton Highlands (Plateau du Cap-Breton, Àrd-thalamh Cheap Bhreatainn), commonly called the Highlands, refer to a highland or mountainous plateau across the northern part of Cape Breton Island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
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Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
Common raven
The common raven (Corvus corax) is a large all-black passerine bird. Snow bunting and common raven are birds described in 1758 and Holarctic birds.
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Cyperaceae
The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges.
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Dryas octopetala
Dryas octopetala, the mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas or white dryad, is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae.
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Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
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Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island (lit; île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's northernmost and third largest island, and the tenth largest in the world.
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Embryo
An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.
Empetrum nigrum
Empetrum nigrum, crowberry, black crowberry, or, in western Alaska, blackberry, is a flowering plant species in the heather family Ericaceae with a near circumboreal distribution in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Finch
The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae.
Finn Salomonsen
Finn Salomonsen (31 January 1909 – 23 April 1983) was a Danish ornithologist.
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Fitness (biology)
Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is a quantitative representation of individual reproductive success.
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Flock (birds)
A flock is a gathering of individual birds to forage or travel collectively.
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Fly
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wing".
Foraging
Foraging is searching for wild food resources.
Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land (Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa) is a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Goldenrod
Goldenrod is a common name for many species of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, commonly in reference to the genus Solidago.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
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Horned lark
The horned lark or shore lark (Eremophila alpestris) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found across the northern hemisphere. Snow bunting and horned lark are birds described in 1758 and Holarctic birds.
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Hybrid (biology)
In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.
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Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
Invertebrate
Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.
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John Gerrard Keulemans
Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (8 June 1842 – 29 March 1912) was a Dutch bird illustrator.
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Lapland longspur
The Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus), also known as the Lapland bunting, is a passerine bird in the longspur family Calcariidae, a group separated by most modern authors from the Fringillidae (Old World finches). Snow bunting and Lapland longspur are birds described in 1758, birds of the Arctic and Holarctic birds.
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Last Glacial Period
The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Leonhard Stejneger
Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist.
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Leonid Portenko
Leonid Oleksandrovych Portenko (11 October 1896 – 26 May 1972) was a Soviet ornithologist of Ukrainian origin who carried out extensive zoogeographic studies on the birds of the northern and north-eastern Palearctic realm.
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Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
McKay's bunting
McKay's bunting (Plectrophenax hyperboreus) is a passerine bird in the longspur family Calcariidae. Snow bunting and McKay's bunting are Plectrophenax.
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Microclimate
A microclimate (or micro-climate) is a local set of atmospheric conditions that differ from those in the surrounding areas, often slightly but sometimes substantially.
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Monogamy in animals
Monogamous pairing in animals refers to the natural history of mating systems in which species pair bond to raise offspring.
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Muséum de Toulouse
The Muséum de Toulouse (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la ville de Toulouse, MHNT) is a museum of natural history in Toulouse, France.
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New World sparrow
New World sparrows are a group of mainly New World passerine birds, forming the family Passerellidae.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya (also,; Но́вая Земля́) is an archipelago in northern Russia.
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Offspring
In biology, offspring are the young creation of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms.
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Passerine
A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes (from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species.
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Pectoralis major
The pectoralis major is a thick, fan-shaped or triangular convergent muscle of the human chest.
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Phenotype
In genetics, the phenotype is the set of observable characteristics or traits of an organism.
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Plectrophenax
Plectrophenax is a small genus of passerine birds of the longspur family Calcariidae.
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Poaceae
Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Polygonaceae
The Polygonaceae are a family of flowering plants known informally as the knotweed family or smartweed—buckwheat family in the United States.
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Polyphagia
Polyphagia or hyperphagia is an abnormally strong, incessant sensation of hunger or desire to eat often leading to overeating.
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Poppy
A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae.
Ragweed
Ragweeds are flowering plants in the genus Ambrosia in the aster family, Asteraceae.
Reproductive success
Reproductive success is an individual's production of offspring per breeding event or lifetime.
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Robert Ridgway
Robert Ridgway (July 2, 1850 – March 25, 1929) was an American ornithologist specializing in systematics.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Saint Elias Mountains
The Saint Elias Mountains (Chaîne Saint-Élie) are a subgroup of the Pacific Coast Ranges, located in southeastern Alaska in the United States, Southwestern Yukon and the very far northwestern part of British Columbia in Canada.
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Saxifragaceae
Saxifragaceae is a family of herbaceous perennial flowering plants, within the core eudicot order Saxifragales.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Seasonal breeder
Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Shivering
Shivering (also called shuddering) is a bodily function in response to cold and extreme fear in warm-blooded animals.
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Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Species description
A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk.
Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
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Systema Naturae
(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
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Towhee
A towhee is any one of a number of species of birds in the genus Pipilo or Melozone within the family Passerellidae (which also includes American sparrows, and juncos).
Tundra
In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.
Type (biology)
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder.
Yukon
Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.
10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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See also
Birds of Iceland
- Atlantic puffin
- Barnacle goose
- Barrow's goldeneye
- Black guillemot
- Black-legged kittiwake
- Common loon
- Common murre
- Common ringed plover
- European golden plover
- European storm petrel
- Great auk
- Great black-backed gull
- Great skua
- Harlequin duck
- Icelandic Society for the Protection of Birds
- Leach's storm petrel
- List of birds of Iceland
- Manx shearwater
- Northern fulmar
- Parasitic jaeger
- Pink-footed goose
- Purple sandpiper
- Razorbill
- Red phalarope
- Red-breasted merganser
- Snow bunting
Plectrophenax
- McKay's bunting
- Plectrophenax
- Snow bunting
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_bunting
Also known as Emberiza nivalis, Passerina nivalis, Plectrophenax nivalis, Snow-Bunting.
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