Pine Bunting

The Pine Bunting breeds across much of temperate Asia, migrating south to central Asia, north India and southern China in winter. It is common in all sorts of open land with some scrub or trees, including cultivation, but has a greater preference for open forest than the closely related Yellowhammer. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe, but often winters in NE Italy and Tuscany.

The Pine Bunting is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Pine Bunting, Emberiza leucocephalos, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group most modern authors now separate from the finches, Fringillidae. Contents - * 1 Breeding and habitat * 2 Appearance and song * 2. More

2nd Pine Bunting for Hungary Yesterday I got a phone call about a record of a male Pine Bunting in Zalaszentmihály. The bird was found in a larger Yellowhammer flock while feeding on a grassland. Since I could not go for it on Tuesday I decided to head to the village this morning. Two fellow birdwatchers escorted me to the site since my car was unreliable (that’s why I missed the Iceland Gull a few weeks back). More

The Pine Bunting is a robust 16-17.5-centimetre bird, with a thick seed-eater's bill. The male has a white crown and cheeks, and a chestnut forehead and throat, and a heavily streaked brown back. The female is much duller and is more streaked on its undersides. Non-breeding plumage is like that of a Yellowhammer, but with all the yellow replaced by white. Its song and calls are like those of the Yellowhammer. More

Pine Bunting determination Similar species Emberizidae Black-Faced Bunting | Black-Headed Bunting | Chestnut Bunting | Cinereous Bunting | Cirl Bunting | Corn Bunting | Cretzschmars Bunting | Dark-Eyed Junco | Fox Sparrow | House Bunting | Lapland Longspur | Little Bunting | Ortolan Bunting | Pallass Bunting | Pine Bunting | Red-headed Bunting | Reed More

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For the purposes of our bird news services, Pine Bunting is classed as Mega: species which have not yet occurred in the British Isles or are exceedingly rare, or are otherwise highly desirable. More

The Pine Bunting, Emberiza leucocephalos, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group most modern authors now separate from the finches, Fringillidae. Breeding and habitat The Pine Bunting breeds across much of temperate Asia, migrating south to central Asia, north India and southern China in winter. It is common in all sorts of open land with some scrub or trees, including cultivation, but has a greater preference for open forest (usually pine) than the closely related Yellowhammer. More

This gallery consists of some photos of Pine Buntings taken in Tuscany, Italy, in the winter 2004-05 and 2005-06. More

Pine Bunting at Wadborough. Photo © R Newton Click to show "Pine Bunting" result 5 300 x 276 24 kb Pine Bunting Top Future tour dates 25 May–3 June... More

The Pine Bunting's natural food consists of insects when feeding young and seeds at other times. The nest is on the ground. Four to six eggs are laid, which show the hair-like markings characteristic of the Bunting group. More

Eventually the male Pine Bunting is found in the flock. It's seen well enough. Everybody sees it. That's what matters I guess. After a while the whole flock of about 250 plus one takes off, flies around in circles, at times disappearing into the low-hanging mist. And we head for home, with our boots muddy. I even have my trousers muddy, with footprints of a wee dog on the right leg. It walked all over us, that wee dog. More

THE PINE BUNTING IN WORCESTERSHIRE 15TH – 24TH JANUARY 2005 Gavin Peplow On the late morning of Saturday 15th January I headed west towards Croome Park with thoughts of trying to see the wintering Great Grey Shrike which I had only seen briefly and at some distance the previous morning. More

Pine Bunting - Definition = Pine Bunting Pine Bunting Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Emberizidae Genus: Emberiza Species: leucocephalos Binomial name More