Corn bunting
| Corn bunting | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Emberiza calandra Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| 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.