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Black-faced Bunting
Emberiza spodocephala · Family Emberizidae
Emberiza spodocephala
Family Emberizidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 83,871
- Countries and territories with records
- 42
About this species
This species has 83,871 occurrence records from 42 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (44.6%), China (24.5%), Japan (7.2%), South Korea (5.5%) and Russia (4.9%); together they account for 86.7% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.18% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Emberiza spodocephala combines the genus name Emberiza with the species epithet spodocephala. 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 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Emberiza schoeniclus. Its record count is 34% of the family average (246,475). The family Emberizidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.