Buntings in Turkey
Our list for Turkey has 5 buntings recorded regularly there: 2 residents, 2 winter visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Turkey in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 5, most common first
Corn BuntingEmberiza calandraResidentCommon16–19 cmRecorded all year
Cirl BuntingEmberiza cirlusResidentUncommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusWinter visitorUncommon14–16 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinellaWinter visitorUncommon16–17 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisPassage migrantRare15–18 cmRegularly Nov
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Reed Bunting 14–16 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