Species profile
Black-Headed Bunting
Emberiza melanocephala
Quick answer
S-central Eurasia; > to India
- Scientific name
- Emberiza melanocephala
- Family
- Emberizidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Emberiza
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Black-Headed Bunting in your journal
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Related species in Emberizidae
- black-faced bunting (Emberiza spodocephala)
- Brown-rumped Bunting (Emberiza affinis)
- Cabanis's Bunting (Emberiza cabanisi)
- Cape Bunting (Emberiza capensis)
- Chestnut Bunting (Emberiza rutila)
- Chestnut-eared Bunting (Emberiza fucata)
- Cinereous Bunting (Emberiza cineracea)
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (Emberiza tahapisi)