{"id":473007,"date":"2015-11-06T10:53:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T09:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/corn-bunting-emberiza-calandra\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:16:55","slug":"corn-bunting-emberiza-calandra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/corn-bunting-emberiza-calandra\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. It breeds across southern and central Europe, north Africa and Asia across to Kazahkstan. It is mainly resident, but some birds from colder regions of central Europe and Asia migrate southwards in winter.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Corn Bunting\u00a0<i>Miliaria\u00a0calandra<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-620-473007\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-7757\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/corn-bunting-emberiza-calandra\/corn_bunting_2.jpg\" title=\"Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra) - Photo taken at Vejer La Frontera, Spain\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra) - Photo taken at Vejer La Frontera, Spain\" alt=\"Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/corn-bunting-emberiza-calandra\/thumbs\/thumbs_corn_bunting_2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-7756\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/corn-bunting-emberiza-calandra\/corn_bunting_1.jpg\" title=\"Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra) - Photo taken at Vejer La Frontera, Spain\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra) - Photo taken at Vejer La Frontera, Spain\" alt=\"Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/corn-bunting-emberiza-calandra\/thumbs\/thumbs_corn_bunting_1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. It breeds across southern and central Europe, north Africa and Asia across to Kazahkstan. It is mainly resident, but some birds from colder regions of central Europe and Asia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":472971,"parent":17619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[3238,3239,1855,1856],"class_list":["post-473007","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corn-bunting","tag-emberiza-calandra","tag-emberizidae","tag-fringillidae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473007\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}