First report of a snow bunting × Lapland longspur hybrid

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: MacDonald, Christie A., Martin, Tracy, Ludkin, Rick, Hussell, David J.T., Lamble, David, Love, Oliver P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2012
• Subjects: Arctic passerine; Avian hybrid; Calcarius lapponicus; Lapland longspur; Plectrophenax nivalis; Snow bunting; Integrative Biology; Arctic; Newfoundland; Canada; St. Lewis; St. Lewis Inlet; Arctic Institute of North America; Snow Bunting; The Arctic Institute; Lapland
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ibiopub/101; https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4222; https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/context/ibiopub/article/1100/viewcontent/admin__4222_9412_1_CE.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 sprin...