Least ConcernReed Bunting
Emberiza schoeniclus
46 countries152 parks
Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 5 species of bunting, spread across 2 families (Calcariidae, Emberizidae).
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 5.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 55 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
The thick-billed Iberian subspecies is critically endangered.
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It was SEO/BirdLife's Bird of the Year for 2009, precisely because of its critical position.
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The two subspecies that breed in Spain, lusitanica and witherbyi, are Iberian endemics and both are listed as Endangered in the Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Species.
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It is the passerine that breeds furthest north in the world: it has been recorded breeding above 83 degrees north, a few hundred kilometres from the pole.
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The males arrive on the breeding grounds up to a month before the females, enduring temperatures of thirty degrees below zero, to secure the best crevices to nest in.
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It is one of the very few passerines with a circumpolar distribution: it breeds on the tundra of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia and Siberia, practically without a break right around the pole.
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In March 1904 a snowstorm in Minnesota killed more than a million and a half Lapland longspurs in a single night during their migration, one of the best-documented mass bird die-offs in history.
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Its winter flocks can gather tens of thousands of birds in the cereal fields, moving in waves that give the ground a rippling look.
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