Scientific name: Plectrophenax nivalis
Environment located in: very high latitudes in the Arctic tundra
Sculpture scale: 1:1
Sculpture size: TBC
Suitable for outdoor display: yes
Materials used: High fired ceramics and matt glazes with pewter legs
Snow buntings are large buntings, with striking `snowy' plumages. Males in summer have all white heads and underparts 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 upperparts. Globally they breed around the arctic from Scandinavia to Alaska, Canada and Greenland and migrate south in winter. They are a scarce breeding species in the UK, in Scotland, making tham an Amber List species. They are more widespread in winter in the north and east when residents are joined by continental birds.
