Masked Bunting (Schoeniclus personata)

Masked Bunting (Schoeniclus personata)

About Masked Bunting (Schoeniclus personata)

Kingdom: Animals
Phylum: Chordates
Class: Birds
Order: Perching Birds
Family: Old World Buntings

Schoeniclus is a genus of Old World passerine birds in the family Emberizidae. Most of the species breed in the eastern Palearctic and migrate further south to winter. The exception is the common reed bunting that breeds across the Palearctic from Spain to the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. They are seed-eating birds with stubby, conical bills.