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 LC    Cretzschmar's Bunting* Id (Atlas):
    Emberiza caesia Vagrant

Description (10)
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Family
Emberizidae (Old World Buntings)

Size
16 cm

First Described (Guide)
Cretzschmar, 1828

Habitat
Rocky areas, temperate grassland. From sea-level - 1,300 m.

Range (Guide)
Albania (B), Chad, Cyprus (B), Egypt, Eritrea, Greece (B) (P), Israel (B), Jordan (B) (P), Lebanon (B), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Morocco (B), Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic (B), Turkey (B).

Vagrant to Algeria, Austria, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (E), Italy, Kuwait, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malta, Netherlands Antilles, Oman, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

Breeds south-western Albania, most of Greece, Crete, much of coastal western and southern Turkey, Cyprus, western Syria, Lebanon, western Jordan, northern Israel and Palestine; possibly also north-western Iraq. Winters in Sudan both on coast and along Nile Valley; some reported southern Egypt, north-western and south-western Saudi Arabia and Eritrea.
 
Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 1,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (53)...)

 
Cretzschmar's Bunting (Emberiza caesia) [XC171572]
     by Lars Lachmann from Kantou, Limassol, Cyprus (call)

 
Cretzschmar's Bunting (Emberiza caesia) [XC561653]
     by Lider Sinav from G\u00fcneyyayla, Burdur Merkez, Burdur, Turkey (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a species group with Grey-necked Bunting (Emberiza buchanani), Cinereous Bunting (Emberiza cineracea) and Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortulana).


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Cretzschmars Bunting (Emberiza caesia) - 10 files


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