There are forty five different species of Old World Buntings, which are predominantly European seed eating birds similar to finches and are related to American Sparrows. Of the forty five different ...

The breeding plumage of the adult male cirl bunting is striking. The crown of the head and the nape are greyish green with black streaks. The supercilium, which is the area from the base of the bill ...

Like many birds on this list, corn buntings were once common on farmland across the UK ... The Dutch population has already gone, and numbers are falling in Spain, Portugal and France. With their ...

SPAIN has lost almost 70 million birds since 1996. Rural and farmland birds suffered the most, with a decrease of 23%, while city birds declined by 18%. Scientists cited increasing urbanisation ...

Reed Bunting has successfully bred on Jersey for the first time in almost 30 years. The record was confirmed when wildlife photographer John Ovenden recently captured images of the birds at St Ouen's ...

Snow Buntings are large buntings, with striking 'snowy' plumages. Males in summer have all white heads and underparts contrasting with a black mantle and wing tips. Females are a more mottled above.

A streaky brown bird, the reed bunting can be found in wetlands, reedbeds and on farmland across the UK. Males sport black heads and a white 'moustache'. Classified in the UK as Amber under the Birds ...

Brushy country near the Mexican border provides a summer home for this elegant bunting. The dense and thorny nature of its habitat may make it seem hard to approach, but the bird is not especially shy ...

The flight of the Towhe Bunting is short, low, and performed from one bush or spot to another, in a hurried manner, with repeated strong jerks of the tail, and such quick motions of the wings, that ...