Showing posts with label Cirl Bunting. Show all posts
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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.