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The beautiful Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana is a fairly scarce summer visitor to southern Europe (parts of the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, and the Balkans), north into Scandinavia and Germany, and east as far as Mongolia. As much as 50% of the global population is found in Europe, and the entire population apparently winters south [...]

Cape Bunting Emberiza capensis
Tanqua Karoo, South Africa. October 2006

Clearly a close congener of other “humbug-headed” buntings usually found on rocky hillsides like the Rock Bunting Emberiza cia of southern and eastern Europe or the House Bunting E. striolata of northern Africa, the southern African Cape Bunting Emberiza capensis is normally found on rock-strewn hillsides [...]

Black-faced Buntings Emberiza spodocehala personata
Narita, Chiba Prefecture, Japan29 January 2006
 

Male Black-faced Bunting E s personata
 

Male Black-faced Bunting E s personata
 

Immature Black-faced Bunting E s personata

 
All photographs copyright Charlie Moores.