Emberiza caesia
In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
Cretzschmar's bunting (Emberiza caesia) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. The English common name commemorates the German physician and scientist Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar who founded the Senckenberg Natural History Museum. The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific caesias is from Latin caesius, "bluish-grey".
This species is monotypic. This bird is smaller than ortolan. The breeding male has a grey head with orange moustaches. The upperparts are brown and heavily streaked, except on the rump, and the underparts are rusty orange. The stout bill is pink.
Females and young birds have a weaker head pattern, and are more similar to ortolans. They can be distinguished by the warm brown rump and white eye-ring. Cretzschmar's bunting breeds on sunny open hillsides with some bushes. It is mainly coastal or insular, and often breeds at lower levels than the closely related ortolan bunting where both occur. It lays four to six eggs in a ground nest. Its natural food consists of seeds... Wikipedia →
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Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Cretzschmar's Bunting sighting in Jerusalem on a given day, based on 66 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 117th most-seen of the 192 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.
September
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Cretzschmar's Bunting in Jerusalem on a given day, against under 5% in October to August, the lowest months. That is one of Jerusalem's driest months, with almost no rain against 90 mm in January.
Among the best
Of the 4 cities where we can rate Cretzschmar's Bunting sightings, Jerusalem ranks 2nd at under 5%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Amman (Jordan, under 5%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cretzschmar's Bunting is recorded against all the birds logged in Jerusalem (66 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.
