Buntings in Wales
Our list for Wales has 4 buntings recorded regularly there: 2 residents and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Wales in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 4, most common first
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusResidentUncommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisPassage migrantUncommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinellaResidentUncommon16–17 cmRecorded all year
Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicusPassage migrantRare15–16 cmRegularly Oct–Nov
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