Emberiza cineracea
In 3 days <5%
The cinereous bunting (Emberiza cineracea) is a bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a passerine family now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. This species was first described by Christian Ludwig Brehm.
The cinereous bunting is a large (16.5–18 cm, 21–29.7 g), slim bunting with a long, white-cornered tail. The term cinereous describes its colouration. It is less streaked than many buntings and has a thick pale bill. It has a greyish back with only subdued dark markings, and a browner tint to the wings.
The adult male's head is dull yellow, with a brighter moustachial line and throat. In the nominate race of south-west Turkey, the rest of the underparts are grey, but the eastern form E. c. semenowi has yellow underparts.
Females are brownish grey above with a whitish throat and yellow only in the moustachial stripe. Young birds have a plain pale belly and streaking on the breast. The call is a harsh tschrip, and the song is a hoarse zru- zru-zru-zru.
It breeds in southern Turkey and southern Iran, and winters around the Red Sea in north-eastern Africa and Yemen. A few isolated populations... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Kuwait City | 🇰🇼 Kuwait | |
| 2 | Dubai | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | |
| 3 | Jerusalem | 🇮🇱 Israel |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Cinereous Bunting sighting in Jerusalem on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 182nd most-seen of the 192 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Cinereous Bunting in Jerusalem on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cinereous Bunting sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 3 cities where we can rate Cinereous Bunting sightings, Jerusalem ranks 3rd at under 5%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Kuwait City (Kuwait, under 5%) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates, under 5%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cinereous Bunting is recorded against all the birds logged in Jerusalem (9 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.
