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ShrublandCup nestSmall · 21 g
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The Cape bunting is 16 cm long. The adult has a black crown, white supercilium and black-bordered white ear coverts. The upperparts are grey brown with some dark streaks, and the wing coverts are chestnut. The tail is darker chestnut, and the underparts are grey with a pale throat. The sexes are very similar, but females may have a buff tone to the white head markings. Young birds have duller chestnut wings, a less distinct head pattern, and heavier streaking extending on to the breast and flanks. The call is an ascending zzoo-zeh-zee-zee.
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When to see the Cape Bunting
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Cape Bunting
The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Cape Bunting
The Cape bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.
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Easily confused with
Cinnamon-breasted BuntingEmberiza tahapisiThey weigh between 11.6 and 21 grams with a length of 13–15 centimeters.
Little BuntingEmberiza pusillaThis is a small bunting, measuring only 12–14 cm (4.7–5.5 in) in length.
Black-faced BuntingEmberiza spodocephalaThe black-faced bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
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