Reference photo — Paco Gómez from Castellón, Spain, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Cirl Bunting
Emberiza cirlus
Moderate
Least concern
Not photographed yet
Distribution
Range
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Quick facts
- Group
- Birds
- Family
- Emberizidae
- Size
- 15–16.5 cm (length)
- Weight
- 20–25 g
- Diet
- Seed eater
- Lifespan
- 2–3 yrs
- Habitat
- Vineyards, Hedgerows, Scrubby farmland
About
The cirl bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), abridged.