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Snow Bunting
Snow buntings are large buntings, with striking `snowy' plumages. Males in summer have all white heads and under-parts contrasting with a black mantle and wing tips. Females are a more mottled above. In autumn and winter birds develop a sandy/buff wash to their plumage and males have more mottled upper-parts. In Scotland they nest only in crevices on rocky mountaintops near snowfields. They are more widespread in winter in the north and east when residents are joined by continental birds.
When to see this species : Spring, Summer
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