corn bunting

A corn bunting was singing halfway up a pylon, short bursts of jangling notes.

The Corn Bunting is a bird of open country with trees, such as farmland and weedy wasteland.

All have declined dramatically in recent years but corn bunting tops the bill with a massive 60% reduction in their population since 1964.

It is very popular with birdwatchers, as several rare species are either resident or seasonal visitors, notably Corn Bunting.

This asteroid is named for a bird, the corn bunting (miliaria calandra).

When I was a boy living on a croft at Aywick, the corn bunting was a familiar bird.

"Forty per cent of Cornwall's corn buntings live on the clifftops here," Mike says, as if the place doesn't have enough enchantment.

Miliaria calandra (corn bunting)

Agricultural intensification and the timing of breeding of Corn Buntings Miliaria calandra.

The island is known for its birdlife, including corncrakes, arctic terns, gannets, corn buntings and Manx shearwaters.

"Birds typical of this habitat include Skylark, Corn Bunting, Yellowhammer and Grey Partridge.

Many other species native to dry grassland are under severe pressure, including the barn owl and little owl, the stone curlew, meadow pipit and corn bunting.

Special birds include kingfishers, water rails, sedge warblers, reed warblers and grasshopper warblers plus a roost of corn buntings in winter.

Dolphins may sometimes be spotted in the bay and the coastline north of Polzeath is a good area for seeing many types of birds including corn buntings and puffins.

The south side of the island is one of the most tranquil places in Essex, where wildlife typical of open farmland such as skylarks, corn buntings and hares can be observed.

The common birds include whooper swan, various ducks and geese, included the Greenland goose, as well as redshank, snipe, quail, skua, corn bunting and corncrakes (rare in Scotland).

For over 75 years the Trust has been conducting scientific research to understand why there have been declines in species such as the grey partridge, black grouse, water vole, corn bunting and brown hare.

The British Trust for Ornithology has recorded large reductions in the populations of tree sparrows, corn buntings and skylarks, largely due to modern crop monocultures and extensive use of herbicides.

Brickle, N.W. & Harper, D.G.C. (2000) Habitat use by Corn Buntings Miliaria calandra in winter and summer.

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.

Birds that forage and nest around farms fell 52% in the past 40 years, with some species, including turtle doves, grey partridges, starlings, tree sparrows, and corn buntings down more than 80% over the period.

Our Countryside Our Future claims that intensive agriculture, promoted by current agricultural subsidies, is destroying natural habitats and putting 40 out of 130 bird species at risk including barn owls, redshank, corn bunting and corncrake.

Other important breeding species include Buzzard, Barn Owl, Long-eared Owl, Nightingale, Stonechat, Whinchat, Wheatear, Corn Bunting and, on occasion, Montagu's Harrier.

Some species have benefited from the change in the downland agricultural scene, and Corn Buntings and Skylarks are now more numerous in these areas than elsewhere in the county and are the most characteristic birds of the downland.

There are some invertebrates recorded, including for marsh fritillary Eurodryas aurinia and small heath Coenonympha pamphilus butterflys, and a number of downland birds are present including for the skylark, corn bunting and grey partridge.