First Report of a Snow Bunting × Lapland Longspur Hybrid

• Main Authors: Macdonald, Christie A., Martin, Tracy, Ludkin, Rick, Hussell, David J.T., Lamble, David, Love, Oliver
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2012
• Subjects: Biology; Life Sciences; Newfoundland; Plectrophenax nivalis; Snow Bunting; Lapland
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/biologypub/1072; https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/context/biologypub/article/2072/viewcontent/Macdonald_et_al.___2012___First_Report_of_a_Snow_Bunting___Lapland_Longspur_.pdf

In late April 2011, photographs of an apparent male snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) × Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus) hybrid were taken at St. Lewis Inlet, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, while the bird was foraging in a mixed flock of both species along a previously documented spri...