In winter, look for a snow bunting on shorelines, fields and weedy roadsides. In spring, these birds head to their Arctic breeding grounds.

The snow bunting, the northernmost songbird, spends its winters in the northern U.S. after summering in the Arctic. This small and unassuming bird might not be as colorful as an indigo bunting ...

The archival record of the museum’s bird collection lists “E. Bessels” as the collector for the snow bunting specimen. Jack Tamisiea, NMNH Bessels may have had a personal reason to poison ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than previously thought ...

Birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 05 / 250529155427.htm. University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The Wilkins’ Bunting birds, a rare species living on the Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic, won’t go extinct anytime soon thanks to wasps. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ...