Species profile
Meadow Bunting
Emberiza cioides
Quick answer
Breeding regions are PAL. Breeding subregions are temperate c, e Palearctic open woods: e Kazakhstan and e Kyrgyzstan through s Russia, Mongolia, ne China to Sakhalin and Kuril Is. (se Russia); in s to n Xinjiang, Yunnan and Zhejiang (nw, sc, se China), Korean Pen., and Hokkaido to Yakushima (n to s Japan). Non breeding regions are some move to lower elevations.
- Scientific name
- Emberiza cioides
- Family
- Emberizidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Emberiza
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Meadow Bunting in your journal
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Related species in Emberizidae
- black-faced bunting (Emberiza spodocephala)
- Black-Headed Bunting (Emberiza melanocephala)
- 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)