Longspurs and Snow Buntings
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Calcariidae
- Lapland Longspur, Calcarius lapponicus
- Smith's Longspur, Calcarius pictus
- Chestnut-collared Longspur, Calcarius ornatus (A)
- Snow Bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis
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Famous quotes containing the word snow:
“But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white—then melts for ever;”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)