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Reed Bunting

Emberiza schoeniclus · Family Emberizidae

Emberiza schoeniclus

Family Emberizidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Emberizidae
GBIF occurrence records
3,648,171
Countries and territories with records
89
Reed Bunting
MPF · 2014-06-01 Emberiza schoeniclus, Swallow Pond, Northumberland 1.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · MPF · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Tommy Andriollo · Emberiza_schoeniclus_-_Common_Reed_Bunting_XC552170.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tommy Andriollo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 3,648,171 occurrence records from 89 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (22.4%), the Netherlands (15.1%), the United Kingdom (11.2%), Spain (8.8%) and Denmark (7.9%); together they account for 65.3% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.8% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Emberiza schoeniclus combines the genus name Emberiza with the species epithet schoeniclus. The Warbla app catalog lists 42 species of the genus Emberiza; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Emberiza citrinella, Emberiza calandra and Emberiza cirlus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 42 species of the family Emberizidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 14.8 times the family average (246,475). The family Emberizidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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