Burung kicau (Songbirds)
McKay's Bunting
Plectrophenax hyperboreus
- tidak umum
- 40 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Breeds on two tiny islands in the Bering Sea and nowhere else. Your message has a very limited zip code.
- Populasi
- ~27,500–35,400 mature individuals, stable single subpopulation
- Habitat
- Breeds on vegetated and rocky tundra in coastal lowlands, nesting in hollow drift logs and rock crevices on shingle beaches and scree slopes; winters on coastal marshes, shingle beaches, and agricultural fields with exposed vegetation
- Fakta menarik
- McKay's Bunting is the whitest songbird in North America, breeding almost exclusively on two tiny, uninhabited Bering Sea islands (Hall and St. Matthew) that together total only about 300 square kilometers.
- Sebaran
- Breeds almost entirely on Hall Island and St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea, Alaska (occasionally St. Lawrence and Pribilof/St. Paul islands); winters along the western Alaska coast from Kotzebue to the Alaska Peninsula, irregularly farther into the Aleutians and southern Alaska, with vagrants reaching British Columbia and the US Pacific Northwest
- Makanan
- Insects and spiders during the breeding season; primarily seeds (weeds and grasses) in winter, with occasional small crustaceans or other marine life foraged along shorelines
- Ukuran
- 0,18 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,315 m
- Masa hidup
- 3 tahun
