Emberiza calandra
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In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
The corn bunting (Emberiza calandra) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. This is a large bunting with heavily streaked buff-brown plumage. The sexes are similar but the male is slightly larger than the female. Its range extends from Western Europe and North Africa across to northwestern China.
The corn bunting was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae and retains its original binomial name of Emberiza calandra. The type locality is Sweden. The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific calandra is from Ancient Greek kalandros, the calandra lark. The corn bunting has sometimes been placed in its own monotypic genus Miliaria.
Two subspecies are recognised: Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monfragüe National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 2 | Kiskunság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 3 | Hortobágy National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 4 | Fertő-Hanság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 5 | Camargue | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 6 | Doñana National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 7 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 8 | Sierra Nevada National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 9 | Białowieża National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 10 | Biebrza National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 11 | Plitvice Lakes National Park | 🇭🇷 Croatia | |
| 12 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 13 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 14 | Aigüestortes National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 15 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 16 | Picos de Europa National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 17 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ogród Zoologiczny w Katowicach | 🇵🇱 Poland |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Corn Bunting sighting in Istanbul on a given day, based on 56 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 150th most-seen of the 233 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Corn Bunting in Istanbul on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Corn Bunting sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
13th of 20
Of the 20 cities where we can rate Corn Bunting sightings, Istanbul ranks 13th at under 5%. The best odds are in Sincan (Turkey, about 20%), Ramallah (Palestine, about 20%) and Karaj (Iran, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Corn Bunting is recorded against all the birds logged in Istanbul (56 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
