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Common Reed Bunting
Emberiza schoeniclus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Emberizidae — Buntings
Common Reed Bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, is a bunting of the Palearctic, breeding in marshes across the British Isles, Scandinavia, north-west Russia and east to the Sea of Okhotsk, Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin, with southern breeding areas reaching Iberia, north-west Morocco, the Mediterranean, Turkey, the Caucasus, northern and south-central Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, north Xinjiang, western Mongolia, north-east China, Hokkaido and northern Honshu. It is closely associated with reedbeds, and also breeds in moorland and arable land, including purple moor grass and rush pastures on poorly drained neutral and acid soils in lowland and upland fringe areas. In winter, many move south, while some remain in the milder west and south.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae — Buntings
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: subarctic to temperate Palearctic marshes: British Isles, Scandinavia and nw Russia through Sea of Okhotsk, Kamchatka, Kuril Is. and Sakhalin (e Russia); in s through Iberian Pen. and nw Morocco, e through Mediterranean, Turkey, Caucasus, n, sc Iran, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan to n Xinjiang (nw China), w Mongolia, ne China and Hokkaido and n Honshu (n Japan)
- Nonbreeding range
- short-range southward movements into wider habitat range
