|
| |
| Home > BirdFacts > buntings > Pine Bunting | |
For details point at or click the  button; for sources point at the  button
|
|
| Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos [SG Gmelin, 1771] | |
 |
||||
Other Names
|
Records
|
|
|
Books & Links
|
|
||||
|
Order:
Passeriformes
|
Family: Emberizidae |
|
BTO Codes:
EL , PINBU
|
EURING No: 18560 | |
|
Number in Britain:
1 record/year
|
||
|
Conservation Status:
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
View video clips from
IBC
|
||
|
Status in UK:
(A) Accidental
|
||
|
Subspecies:
leucocepahlos recorded in Britain (of 2 subsp. in the world)
|
||
| . | ||
|
Length:
16 cm
|
Wingspan: 28 cm |
Weight:
M/F: 30 g
|
|
Scientific name from:
|
old German: embritz=bunting and Gr.: leukos + kephalos=head |
|
World Distribution:
|
BREEDS: e&c Asia, WINTERS: south to Middle East & s Asia |
|
Habitat:
|
Open woodland, scrub |
|
Diet:
|
Seeds, summer, insects, on ground and in low bushes |
|
|
|
| Records and Distribution | |
|
First Record:
Fair Isle, 1911
|
|
|
Total Number of Records (1958-2004):
41
|
Summary of Records by Year
|
|
Most Likely to Occur in:
Too few records
|
|
|
Most Recent County Records:
|
|
|
Scotland:
Highland
(1976),
Orkney
(1995),
Shetland
(2003),
|
|
|
North-east England:
Durham
(1998),
Northumberland
(1992),
East Yorkshire
(2003),
North Yorkshire
(2001),
South Yorkshire
(1996),
|
|
|
North-west England:
No Records
|
|
|
English Midlands:
Worcestershire
(1996),
|
|
|
Eastern England:
Essex
(1992),
Lincolnshire
(1995),
Norfolk
(2004),
|
|
|
South-east England:
Surrey
(1989),
|
|
|
South-west England:
Devon
(2004),
Dorset
(1975),
Isles of Scilly
(1985),
|
|
|
Wales:
Gwynedd
(2001),
Pembrokeshire
(2000),
|
|
|
|
|
| Other Names | |
| Gaelic: | Welsh: |
| Danish: Hvidkindet værling | Dutch: Witkopgors |
| Finnish: Mäntysirkku | French: Bruant à calotte blanche |
| German: Fichtenammer | Hungarian: Fenyosármány |
| Icelandic: Lerkitittlingur | Irish: Gealóg Phéine |
| Italian: Zigolo golarossa | Norwegian: Hvithodespurv |
| Polish: Trznadel bialoglowy | Portuguese: Escrevedeira de Gmelin |
| Spanish: Escribano cabeciblanco | Swedish: Tallsparv |
|
|
|
| For More Information... |
|
Books and Monographs:
|
| No books written recently |
| See Also: |
|
Wikipedia entry
|
|
Recent sightings and information from BirdGuides.com
|
|
Find papers on Google Scholar
|
|
Find papers on Scirus
|
 | ||
 | | BirdFacts home | BTO Home Email: birdfacts@bto.org |
| These data should be cited as: | © British Trust for Ornithology, |
|