Black-headed Bunting

Emberiza melanocephala Scopoli, 1769

Emberizidae — Buntings

Black-headed Bunting, Emberiza melanocephala, is a passerine of the bunting family Emberizidae that breeds across open woods and scrub from south-west France, Italy and the Balkans to south-east Ukraine, south-west Russia and the Caucasus, and south through Greece, Crete, Turkey, Cyprus, northern Israel and northern Jordan to north-central Iran, with further breeding in north-west Syria and northern Iraq. In winter it moves to fields and thickets in western India, reaching the plains in the west and south to the south-central Indian Peninsula. It was described by Scopoli in 1769.

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Emberizidae — Buntings
Breeding range: Palearctic: sc Europe to sw Asian open woods, scrub: sw France, Italy, Balkans ne to se Ukraine and sw Russia and Caucasus; in s to Greece, Crete, Turkey, Cyprus to n Israel and n Jordan, e through nw Syria and n Iraq to nc, se Iran
Nonbreeding range: w Indian fields, thickets: far w to nc plains and s to sc Indian Pen.