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[[Image:Reed_Bunting.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo by Richard Ford<br />male]]
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[[Image:Reed_Bunting.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by Richard Ford male]]
==Description==
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==Identification==
 
The male in breeding plumage is more or less unmistakable, except that there is a very closely related Siberian species which has occured in Europe.
 
The male in breeding plumage is more or less unmistakable, except that there is a very closely related Siberian species which has occured in Europe.
==Identification==
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==Distribution==
 
A common breeder in reedbeds and marshland in much of Europe, it has over recent decades become less specialised in its habitat preference and is now found in drier habitats.
 
A common breeder in reedbeds and marshland in much of Europe, it has over recent decades become less specialised in its habitat preference and is now found in drier habitats.
 
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==Taxonomy==
[[Image:reedbunting_female.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo by postcardcv<br />female]]
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==Habitat==
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==Behaviour==
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[[Image:reedbunting_female.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by postcardcv<br />female]]
  
 
==Bird Song==
 
==Bird Song==

Revision as of 13:57, 18 September 2007

Emberiza schoeniclus
Photo by Richard Ford male

Identification

The male in breeding plumage is more or less unmistakable, except that there is a very closely related Siberian species which has occured in Europe.

Distribution

A common breeder in reedbeds and marshland in much of Europe, it has over recent decades become less specialised in its habitat preference and is now found in drier habitats.

Taxonomy

Habitat

Behaviour

Photo by postcardcv
female

Bird Song

<flashmp3>Emberiza schoeniclus (song).mp3</flashmp3>
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