English: Lapland Bunting, Lapland Longspur
Russian: Подорожник
Mongolian: Лапланд буулгатхөмрөг
German: Spornammer
French: Bruant lapon
Japanese: ツメナガホオジロ (Tsumenaga-hojiro)
Body length: 14-15.5 cm
Wing span: 22-28 cm
Winter visitor
Breeding season: March-August
Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern
Food: Seeds of various plants.
Habitat:
Most wintering and passage migrant individuals gather in areas where
seeds are plenty in open forest steppe, north of desert steppe, mountain
regions and cultivated fields in Mongolia. They form flocks of up to 2,000
individuals and move around areas with thin snow cover and abundant seeds.