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ForestCup nestTiny · 15 g
What the Little Bunting sounds like
ID tip
This is a small bunting, measuring only 12–14 cm (4.7–5.5 in) in length. It has white underparts with dark streaking on the breast and sides. With its chestnut face and white malar stripe, it resembles a small female reed bunting, but has black crown stripes, a white eye-ring, and a fine dark border to the rear of its chestnut cheeks. The sexes are similar. The call is a distinctive zik, and the song is a rolling siroo-sir-sir-siroo.
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When to see the Little Bunting
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Little Bunting
The map shades 50 countries with regular records, and 9 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 States, Luxembourg, Mauritania, Morocco, Ukraine, Serbia, North Korea, Pakistan, Romania.
About the Little Bunting
The little bunting is a passerine bird belonging to 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.
Cape BuntingEmberiza capensisThe Cape bunting is 16 cm long.
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.
Side by side: Cape Bunting vs Little Bunting · Cinnamon-breasted Bunting vs Little Bunting
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