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Emberiza cioides · Family Emberizidae
Emberiza cioides
Family Emberizidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 60,350
- Countries and territories with records
- 22

About this species
This species has 60,350 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Japan (69.6%), South Korea (15.4%), China (9.6%), Russia (2.2%) and Mongolia (1.8%); together they account for 98.6% of the total. In Japan, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Emberiza cioides combines the genus name Emberiza with the species epithet cioides. The Warbla app catalog lists 42 species of the genus Emberiza; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Emberiza schoeniclus, Emberiza citrinella and Emberiza calandra.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 42 species of the family Emberizidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Emberiza schoeniclus. Its record count is 24.5% of the family average (246,475). The family Emberizidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.