Snow Bunting from the remote cam 5 Pam Birley photo

Domain:Eukarya
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Sub-Phylum:Vertebrata
Class:Aves
Order:Passerifomes
Family:Emberizidae
Genus :Plectrophenax
Species::nivalis
Common Name: Snow Bunting

This is a very pale Snow Bunting . Snow Buntings are uncommon around Victoria and best seen in late fall-early winter, so any bunting in February is unusual. This is only the fourth Snow Bunting record for the Rocky Point Bird Observatory checklist. The first three images were taken in February 2005 using the remote camera 5.  The last picture is a poor image through a blurry remote camera 5 housing, but the only one we have so far of a male snow bunting which was taken by PB in March 2007.