Reed Bunting
Emberiza schoeniclus
 (L 5.8")
Mossø Lake,
Skandeborg
06Jun2010
Then my dial goes not true; I look
this lark for a bunting.
      (William Shakespeare,
        All‘s Well That Ends Well)
Form flocks outside of breeding
season...European and Asian but
also breed in the Aleutian Islands.
Emberiza is an old German name for
bunting; schoeniclus in Greek is a small
waterside bird mentioned by Aristotle.
© Arnoud B. van
den Berg
Macaulay 
Library
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