Black-faced Bunting

What the Black-faced Bunting sounds like

Recorded by Jochem Verweij · Call, flight call · Khurkh Bird Ringing Station, Биндэр, Хэнтий, Mongolia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Jochem Verweij · Call · Khurkh Bird Ringing Station, Биндэр, Хэнтий, Mongolia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Black-faced Bunting

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-faced Bunting

The map shades 20 countries with regular records, and 8 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United Kingdom, Norway, France, Germany, Poland, Bhutan, Finland, Netherlands.

About the Black-faced Bunting

The black-faced bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Little BuntingEmberiza pusillaThis is a small bunting, measuring only 12–14 cm (4.7–5.5 in) in length. Cinnamon-breasted BuntingEmberiza tahapisiThey weigh between 11.6 and 21 grams with a length of 13–15 centimeters. Cape BuntingEmberiza capensisThe Cape bunting is 16 cm long.