🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Black-faced Bunting live?

Emberiza spodocephala has 80,834 records in 37 countries and territories, from 1842 to 2026. Most records come from Taiwan.

Black-faced Bunting
Black-faced Bunting — Photo: 大家好64 · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesEmberizidaeEmberiza

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18422026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Taiwan 36,868
China 20,060
Japan 4,945
South Korea 4,238
Russia 3,893
Hong Kong 3,653
Mongolia 1,796
India 1,746
Netherlands 1,617
Sweden 591
Thailand 254
Spain 172
Philippines 144
Macao 139
United Kingdom 121
Vietnam 95
Nepal 87
Bangladesh 85
Norway 68
Italy 62
Israel 50
France 40
Myanmar 38
Laos 21
Germany 15
North Korea 8
Poland 8
Bhutan 4
Finland 4
Belgium 2
Iran 2
Kazakhstan 2
Türkiye 2
Cyprus 1
Greece 1
Madagascar 1
Portugal 1

Related animals

Others in the family Emberizidae.

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Rock Bunting
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Cape Bunting
Cape Bunting
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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.