Buntings in Spain
Our list for Spain has 6 buntings recorded regularly there: 2 residents, 1 summer visitor and 3 winter visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Spain in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 6, most common first
Corn BuntingEmberiza calandraResidentCommon16–19 cmRecorded all year
Cirl BuntingEmberiza cirlusResidentUncommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusWinter visitorUncommon14–16 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinellaSummer visitorUncommon16–17 cmRecorded all year
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisWinter visitorRare15–18 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicusWinter visitorRare15–16 cmRegularly Oct–Feb
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