corn bunting

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Skylarks hung high in the air, twittering, and we first heard and then saw the melodious little corn bunting, a bird that has been lost to much of Britain because of modern agricultural practices.

From Washington Post

Indeed, the Corn bunting is so unusual relative to most other buntings that the idea that it might require its own genus – Miliaria – always looked pretty reasonable to me, even though tradition until recently was to include it within Emberiza.

From Scientific American

“We discovered that over 90 percent of the bird species that were rare or highly endangered in Bavaria - such as the whinchat, the corn bunting and the European nightjar - could be found in the Green Belt. It became a final retreat for many species, and it still is today,” he said.

From Reuters

“We discovered that over 90 percent of the bird species that were rare or highly endangered in Bavaria - such as the whinchat, the corn bunting and the European nightjar - could be found in the Green Belt. It became a final retreat for many species, and it still is today,” he said.

From Reuters

For the first time since monitoring for corn bunting calls began, the birds have not been heard on Barra or Vatersay.

From BBC