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− | Orange throat, nape, and underparts, intricate black-and-white face pattern. The white lesser coverts are quite pronounced on a male in spring and early summer. Females and immatures have lightly-streaked buffy underparts, dark crowns, brown wings with less obvious white lesser coverts, dark tails with white outer | + | [[Image:Smith's_Longspura.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo © by {{user|tjsimonsen|tjsimonsen}}<br />Beaverhill Lake, Alberta, [[Canada]]]] |
+ | Orange throat, nape, and underparts, intricate black-and-white face pattern. The white lesser coverts are quite pronounced on a male in spring and early summer. Females and immatures have lightly-streaked buffy underparts, dark crowns, brown wings with less obvious white lesser coverts, dark tails with white outer [[Topography#Tails|rectrices]] and a light-coloured face. | ||
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− | + | The diet includes seeds, also eating insects in summer. Young birds are mainly fed insects. | |
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+ | Three to five eggs are laid in a grass cup nest on the ground; both parents feed the young. Both males and females may have more than one mate. | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:31, 17 July 2019
- Calcarius pictus
Identification
Orange throat, nape, and underparts, intricate black-and-white face pattern. The white lesser coverts are quite pronounced on a male in spring and early summer. Females and immatures have lightly-streaked buffy underparts, dark crowns, brown wings with less obvious white lesser coverts, dark tails with white outer rectrices and a light-coloured face.
Distribution
Northern Canada and Alaska and the United States in winter.
Taxonomy
This species is monotypic.[1]
Habitat
Open grassy areas.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes seeds, also eating insects in summer. Young birds are mainly fed insects.
Breeding
Three to five eggs are laid in a grass cup nest on the ground; both parents feed the young. Both males and females may have more than one mate.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Smith's Longspur. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Smith%27s_Longspur