Buntings in Italy
Our list for Italy has 6 buntings recorded regularly there: 3 residents, 1 winter visitor, 1 passage migrant and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Italy in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 6, most common first
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Cirl BuntingEmberiza cirlusResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Corn BuntingEmberiza calandraResidentCommon16–19 cmRecorded all year
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinellaResidentUncommon16–17 cmRecorded all year
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisPassage migrantRare15–18 cmRegularly Dec–Jan
Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicusScarceRare15–16 cm
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Reed Bunting 14–16 cm
- Lapland Longspur 15–16 cm
- Cirl Bunting 15–17 cm
- Yellowhammer 16–17 cm
- Snow Bunting 15–18 cm
- Corn Bunting 16–19 cm
Body 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