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Snow Bunting, Scotland Snow Bunting in front of the Triple Buttress on Beinn Eighe Plectrophenax nivalis,Scotland,Snow bunting,Torridon Click/tap to enlarge

Snow Bunting, Scotland

Snow Bunting in front of the Triple Buttress on Beinn Eighe

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    Great scene! Posted 5 years ago
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      Hi Ferdy, Is it possible to have Scotland? As you have Isle of Man etc. & Scotland has arctic species quite separate from the rest of the UK??? Cheers, David Posted 5 years ago
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        Sorry, but I'm afraid not. Both JungleDragon's internal country list and the one we map to when there's a Google map at play are based on the ISO country list. The ISO country list considers Scotland part of the UK "country", and not a country in itself. Isle of Man is not part of the UK, instead part of the British Crown, which does separate it as a country by the ISO norm.

        It's a technicality, surely you and I consider it a country, but I have to stick to these standards, hope you understand.         Posted 5 years ago
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          Yes I can see that (no problem) but for accuracy Isle of Wight is definitely part of UK and is not constituted like Isle of Man ;¬) Posted 5 years ago
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            Understood.

            It's a good thing you found an alternative way to group Scotland observations, using the tag system. I would also recommend to include it in the title:

            "Snow Bunting, Scotland"

            This way it will be found both by tag search and general search.

            Posted 5 years ago
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              Cheers Ferdy - thanks - I had put it in the tag, have added in title too Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago

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The Snow bunting

The snow bunting is a passerine bird in the longspur family Calcariidae. It is an arctic specialist, with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere. There are small isolated populations on a few high mountain tops south of the Arctic region, including the Cairngorms in central Scotland and the Saint Elias Mountains on the southern Alaska-Yukon border, and also Cape Breton Highlands.

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  • 23.40625mm