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GrasslandCup nestSmall · 49 g
What the Corn Bunting sounds like
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This is an unusual bunting because the plumages of the sexes are similar in appearance, though the male is approximately 20% larger than the female. This large bulky bunting is 16–19 cm long, with a conspicuously dark eye and yellowish mandibles. Males lack any showy colours, especially on the head, which is otherwise typical of genus Emberiza. Both sexes look something like larks, being streaked grey-brown above with whitish underparts. The underparts are streaked over the flanks and breast, and the streaking forms gorget around the throat.
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When to see the Corn Bunting
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Corn Bunting
The map shades 70 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Finland, San Marino.
About the Corn Bunting
The corn bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. This is a large bunting with heavily streaked buff-brown plumage. The sexes are similar but the male is slightly larger than the female. Its range extends from Western Europe and North Africa across to northwestern China.
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Easily confused with
Cirl BuntingEmberiza cirlusThe cirl bunting is like a small yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella), and is around 15.5 cm (6.1 in) in length with a wing-span 22–25.5 cm (8.7–10.0 in).
Rock BuntingEmberiza ciaThis bird is 16 cm in length.
Ortolan BuntingEmberiza hortulanaThe ortolan bunting is 16–17 centimetres (6+1⁄4–6+3⁄4 inches) in length and has a wing-span of 23–29 cm (9–11+1⁄2 in).
Side by side: Corn Bunting vs Yellowhammer · Common Reed Bunting vs Corn Bunting · Cirl Bunting vs Corn Bunting · Corn Bunting vs Rock Bunting · Corn Bunting vs Ortolan Bunting
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