Pallas’s Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi   [Cabanis, 1851]

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Order: Passeriformes Family: Emberizidae
BTO Codes: , PARBU EURING No: 18780
Number in Britain: Fewer than 20 records
Conservation Status:
UK: Not Assessed
European: Not a species of concern
Global: Least Concern ( Details )
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Status in UK: (A)  Accidental
Subspecies: undetermined recorded in Britain (of 4 subsp. in the world)
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Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 22 cm Weight: M/F: 14 g    
Scientific name from: old German: embritz=bunting and after Peter Pallas (1741-1811) German naturalist in Siberia
World Distribution: e Asia
Habitat: Riverine scrub
Diet: Seeds, also invertebrates in breeding season

Records and Distribution

First Record: Fair Isle, 1976 (Broad, R.A. & Oddie, W.E. 1980. British Birds 73:402-408)
Total Number of Records (1950-2007): 3 Summary of Records by Year
Most Likely to Occur in: Too few records
Most Recent County Records:
   Scotland: Shetland (1981),
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   North-west England:
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   Eastern England:
   South-east England: East Sussex (1990),
   South-west England:
   Wales:

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Other Names

Pallas’s Bunting
Gaelic: Welsh:
Danish: Sibirisk rørspurv Dutch: Pallas' Rietgors
Finnish: Pikkupajusirkku French: Bruant de Pallas
German: Pallasammer Hungarian: Pallas nádisármány
Icelandic: Reyrtittlingur Irish:
Italian: Migliarino del Pallas Norwegian: Krattspurv
Polish: Potrzos popielaty Portuguese: Escrevedeira de Pallas
Spanish: Escribano de Pallas Swedish: Dvärgsävsparv

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