corn bunting

British

noun

a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)

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They provide habitat for red-listed farmland birds such as corn bunting, yellowhammer and linnet, as well as winter food for visiting species including fieldfares and redwings.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

First she raked down a lark, then a corn bunting; and at the third cast-off overtook and bound on to a turtle-dove, big as herself.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

There, too, sedentary as an owl in the daytime, the corn bunting was common, discharging his brief song at intervals—a sound as of shattering glass.

From Birds in Town and Village by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

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