Title

Snow bunting

Caption

Snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) adult male, breeding plumage, in flight, with mosquitoes in beak, returning to nest in rusty metal pipe, near Barrow, Alaska, U.S.A.

Date

Feb 27, 2017

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Ignacio Yufera

Reference

BRK22D24_289

Model release

No

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,9Mb (897,1Kb) / 17,7in x 11,8in / 5315 x 3544 (300dpi)

Keywords

Alaska American sparrow American sparrows Aves Bird Birds Culicidae Diptera Emberizidae Eurasia Flies Fly Insect Insecta Insects Long-horned flies Long-horned fly Metal pipe Metal tube Nematocera New World sparrow North America Oscine Passeri Passeriformes Passerine Passerines Plectrophenax nivalis Pterygota Songbird Songbirds True fly US-American adult adult animal adult animals alternate plumage animal animal behavior animal behaviour animals animals in the wild behavior behaviour bird photography bird's nest bird-nest birds' nests breeding area breeding burrow breeding burrows breeding cavity breeding dress breeding ground breeding grounds breeding plumage breeding site cable cables carry carrying eat exemptable fauna feed feeding flight flights fly flying flying insect flying insects forage foraging habitat hunt hunting in flight in the air in the beak ingestion line male male animal male animals males mating behavior mating behaviour mating period mating season mating time mature matures metal metals mid air mid-adult woman mid-adult women mosquito mosquitoes move movement movements moving natural environment natural environments natural habitat nest nest hole nesting hole nesting holes nesting site nesting sites nests nuptial plumage out outdoor outdoors outside pipe pipes pterygote insect return returning returns rust rusting rusty rutting season search for food searching for food snow bunting snow buntings snowflake social behavior social behaviour social behaviours summer summery wild animal wild animals wildlife wildlife photography America American Asia US-America USA United States United States of America animal feed animal feeds clipping crop cropped cropping cut out cut-out cutout