The thick-billed Iberian subspecies is critically endangered.
From Reed Bunting
It was SEO/BirdLife's Bird of the Year for 2009, precisely because of its critical position.
From Reed Bunting
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.
From Reed Bunting
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.
From Lapland Longspur
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.
From Lapland Longspur
Its winter flocks can gather tens of thousands of birds in the cereal fields, moving in waves that give the ground a rippling look.
From Lapland Longspur
A grey head with black stripes; closely tied to stony sun-facing slopes.
From Rock Bunting
It is a bird of the middle mountains that has gradually taken over the abandoned terraces of vineyards and olive groves on mid-slopes, where the mosaic of stone, scrub and grass reproduces its natural habitat exactly.
From Rock Bunting

Ecosystems