Snow Buntings

Snow Buntings are the most northern-breeding songbird in the world. They are extreme cold specialists that migrate south from the Arctic to Manitoba for the winter. There are costs to being a cold-specialist given our rapidly warming planet. How are these little birds dealing with rapidly changing conditions in the Arctic, not to mention our warmer winters down south? To top it off, there is increasing infrastructure development in the North – can Snow Buntings handle an urban-Arctic future? Come hear about the latest research on migration patterns, urban-Arctic breeding buntings, and more!
Presented by Dr. Emily McKinnon has been studying Snow Buntings for over 10 years with colleagues at the University of Windsor, Université du Quebec, and at the University of Manitoba.