Breeding males show a black face and chestnut nape. In winter, the birds may gather in flocks in North American fields.
Breeding males have a black face pattern and a chestnut nape. Breeding females are a little more subdued, and winter plumage is streaked and plain.
It breeds on Arctic tundra and eats seeds and insects in summer, then moves south and may form flocks in agricultural fields in winter.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.