Tuesday, April 23, 2019

CIRL BUNTING

Photographed at Blenheim, South Island, New Zealand, April, 2019


1290                     CIRL BUNTING              Emberiza cirlus

NEW ZEALAND                  115 

Uncommon European introduction. Found in dry pastures or arable farmland with scattered scrub, and pine and macrocarpa shelterbelts, mainly in Nelson and eastern South Island, especially Marlborough and Central Otago.






1 comment:

  1. Congratulations 1290 is alot of birds to encounter - nice that it is a migrant too - a welcome stranger

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