Photo of the Week: Lapland Longspur, Winter Visitor

Small brown sparrow-like bird with rusty nape, and white-tipped rufous wings forages in the snow covered stubble of a harvested cornfield.

After more than two months of searching, I was finally able to find one Lapland Longspur in our area this weekend.

Time to celebrate!

Along with Snow Buntings, the Lapland Longspur is a winter visitor to our state of Michigan. Both birds breed in the far north Arctic in Canada and Alaska.

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