snow bunting

English

a snow bunting

Noun

snow bunting (plural snow buntings)

1. A finch, Plectrophenax nivalis, having white plumage, widely distributed in northern latitudes.
   • 2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 117:

     Soon the snow buntings will arrive, bringing song. My favourite snow bunting song is the clearance song they make to land.

   Synonym: snowflick

Translations

bird

• Bashkir: аҡбаш турғай (aqbaş turğay)
• Belarusian: сняжурка f (snjažurka)
• Bulgarian: снежна овесарка (snežna ovesarka)
• Catalan: sit blanc
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪鹀 (zh)

• Cornish: bras an ergh m, erghen f
• Czech: sněhule (cs)
• Danish: snespurv (da)
• Dutch: sneeuwgors (nl) f
• Esperanto: neĝemberizo
• Estonian: hangelind
• Faroese: snjófuglur m
• Finnish: pulmunen (fi)
• French: plectrophane des neiges (fr) m, bruant des neiges (fr)
• German: Schneeammer (de) f
• Greek: χιονοτσίχλονο n (chionotsíchlono)
• Hawaiian: ʻamaulikāka
• Hungarian: hósármány (hu)
• Icelandic: snjótittlingur (is) m
• Irish: gealóg shneachta f
• Italian: zigolo delle nevi m
• Japanese: ユキホオジロ
• Kabardian: кӏырыкъпӏащэ (kʼərəqpʼaśɛ)
• Kazakh: ақторғай (aqtorğai)
• Latvian: sniedze f
• Lithuanian: sniegstartė f
• Maltese: durrajsa tal-maltemp f, durrajsa bajda f
• Mari:

  Western Mari: поран кек (poran kek)

• Mongolian: туйлын цасчхөмрөг (tujlyn casčxömrög)
• Norman: blianche alouette f
• Norwegian: snøspurv
• Ottoman Turkish: قار قوشی (kar kuşu)
• Polish: śnieguła zwyczajna, śnieguła (pl), śnieżka (pl)
• Romanian: presură-de-iarnă f
• Russian: пуночка (ru) f (punočka)
• Scottish Gaelic: eun-an-t-sneachda m, bigein-sneachda m
• Skolt Sami: pittsaž
• Slovak: snehuľka f
• Spanish: escribano nival
• Swedish: snösparv (sv)
• Turkish: kar kuşu (tr)
• Ukrainian: пуночка (punočka)
• Yakut: туллук (tulluk)

References

• snow bunting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Plectrophenax nivalis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Plectrophenax nivalis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons