Buntings in Shetland Islands
Our list for Shetland Islands has 4 buntings recorded regularly there: 1 resident, 1 summer visitor, 1 winter visitor and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Shetland Islands in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 4, most common first
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisWinter visitorUncommon15–18 cmRegularly Sep–May
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusSummer visitorUncommon14–16 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicusPassage migrantUncommon15–16 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinellaResidentRare16–17 cmRegularly Oct–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