Corn bunting | |
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In Tunisia, Ichkeul National Park | |
Male singing in Dorset, England. Recorded by Lawrence Shove. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Emberizidae |
Genus: | Emberiza |
Species: | E. calandra
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Binomial name | |
Emberiza calandra Linnaeus, 1758
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Range of E. calandra Breeding Resident Non-breeding
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The corn bunting (Emberiza calandra) 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.