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[[Image:Smith's_Longspura.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|tjsimonsen|tjsimonsen}}<br>Location: Beaverhill Lake, Alberta, [[Canada]]]] | [[Image:Smith's_Longspura.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|tjsimonsen|tjsimonsen}}<br>Location: Beaverhill Lake, Alberta, [[Canada]]]] | ||
==Identification== | ==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 | + | 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#General Anatomy|rectrices]] and a light-coloured face. |
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
Revision as of 01:08, 18 December 2014
- 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: 3 to 5 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, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Smith's Longspur. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Smith%27s_Longspur
