Pine Bunting

What the Pine Bunting sounds like

Recorded by steve · Song · Улаанбаатар, Налайх Дүүрэг, Улаанбаатар, Mongolia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Pine Bunting

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pine Bunting

The map shades 35 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 Netherlands, Finland, Spain, Taiwan, United States, Germany, Ireland, Czechia, Slovenia.

About the Pine Bunting

The pine bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group most modern authors now separate from the finches, Fringillidae. It lives in Eurosiberia east of the Urals.

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

Easily confused with

Chestnut BuntingEmberiza rutilaIt is a fairly small bunting, 14 to 15 cm in length. Striolated BuntingEmberiza striolataIt is 14 cm long, similar in size to the house bunting and smaller than the similarly plumaged rock bunting. Yellow-browed BuntingEmberiza chrysophrysThe yellow-browed bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern taxonomists from the finches (Fringillidae).