ML504950511
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Joseph Morlan Laguntzaile honen media Profila
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Half Moon Bay SB--Venice Beach and Pilarcitos/Frenchman's Creek Mouth
San Mateo, California, United States
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See photos and video.A striking rarity found by Chris Hayward. This appears to be the fourth acceptable record for San Mateo County and the first in over 20 years. Aging and sexing Snow Buntings is tricky because of the similarity of immature males to females. That said, I suspect this one is a male based on the all white secondaries with black wing-tips and more extensive white primaries and primary coverts. See flight shot by Janet Ellis on Facebook. This is presumably the highly migratory widespread nominate race. Formerly classified with other buntings in the Emberizidae, Snow Buntings are now placed in a new family, the Calcariidae along with the Longspurs based on a molecular study by Alström et al. (2008).
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