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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
Snow Buntings |
| Image notes: |
Snow Buntings used to find rich pickings on the oat stubble, which was not ploughed till April each year. Most Crofters grew oats till about the 1980s, |
| Species in Image: |
Snow Bunting |
| Date: |
1978 |
| Area: |
Yell |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc01865 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Snow Bunting |
| Latin Name |
Plectrophenax nivalis |
| Shetland Name |
Snaa Ful |
| Latin Group Name |
Passeriformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Emberizidae |
| Common Family Name |
Buntings |
| Description |
Common passage migrant and fairly common winter visitor. Mostly recorded in October and November.
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