| Small bird; breeding male has black crown, face, and breast and chestnut hind neck. Female is nondescript, like many sparrows.
Alpine and dry lowland tundra; nests inside of tussocks, small clumps of sedge, or dry knolls
Seeds and buds of plants, crane flies, mosquitoes, spiders
Weasels, foxes, jaegers, gulls, short-eared owls, falcons, small hawks
Longspurs often line their nests with caribou hair or ptarmigan feathers.
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