McKay's Bunting is one of the rarest North American breeding birds, nesting only on the remote islands of St. Matthew and Hall Islands in the Bering Sea. It is almost entirely white — purer white than the closely related Snow Bunting — with only small black wing tips. In winter it appears in small numbers on the coast of western Alaska, sometimes mixing with Snow Buntings.
Habitat
Remote Bering Sea islands when breeding; western Alaskan coast in winter
Diet
Seeds and insects from tundra
How common
Rare
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