Cartopédie › Animals › Families
Own every animal of the family Emberizidae.
Buntings are small songbirds with a cone-shaped bill made for cracking seeds. They live in fields, heaths and woodland edges. They are found mostly in the Old World. The male often sings from the top of a bush. Many gather in flocks in winter. They feed mostly on the ground.
The start of their anecdote. The album's other cards are for you to discover in the game.
Emberizidae
Emberiza melanocephala · Least concern
About 7,000 km: that is how far one ringed black-headed bunting travelled, the longest migration recorded for the species. It breeds from south-east Europe to Iran and winters mainly in India, and its world population is estimated at 7.6 to 27.5 million adults.
Photo: Mark S Jobling (CC BY 3.0)
Emberizidae
Emberiza cirlus · Least concern
Devon is its British stronghold. The pioneering ornithologist George Montagu recorded finding it near his home in Kingsbridge in 1802. A very small population still lives there. The bird hardly travels and often forages within 250 m of its nest in summer.
Photo: Cirl_bunting.jpg: Paco Gómez from Castellón, Spain derivative work: Bogbumper (talk) (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Emberizidae
Emberiza calandra · Least concern
Fathers do little: they neither build the grass nest on the ground nor incubate, and only feed the chicks once they are more than half grown. Because the sexes are born in equal numbers, some males stay unmated each season. This large, bulky bunting with streaky brown plumage was named by Linnaeus in 1758 and still bears his name for it.
Photo: Steve Riall (CC BY 2.0)
One account, every theme. Free, no ads.
