Rustic Bunting

What the Rustic Bunting sounds like

Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Call, flight call · Arrondissement of Avranches (near Vains), Manche, Normandy, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Rustic Bunting

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Rustic Bunting

The map shades 29 countries with regular records, and 17 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, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Canada, India, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Ukraine, Nepal, Estonia, Bhutan, Belarus, Faroe Islands, Hungary, Romania.

About the Rustic Bunting

The rustic bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific rustica is Latin for "rustic, simple".

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Easily confused with

Golden-breasted BuntingEmberiza flaviventrisThe golden-breasted bunting is 15–16 cm long. Cape BuntingEmberiza capensisThe Cape bunting is 16 cm long. Cinnamon-breasted BuntingEmberiza tahapisiThey weigh between 11.6 and 21 grams with a length of 13–15 centimeters.