Buntings in Estonia
Our list for Estonia has 4 buntings recorded regularly there: 1 resident, 1 summer visitor and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Estonia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 4, most common first
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinellaResidentCommon16–17 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisPassage migrantUncommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicusPassage migrantRare15–16 cmRegularly Apr–May
Smallest to largest
Length, cmBody length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made