Corn Bunting

This bunting is a bird of open farmland across Europe, where males sing a distinctive jangling, key-rattling song from fence posts, wires or the tops of low bushes. It feeds on the ground on seeds and, in summer, insects, and tends to sit heavily and conspicuously compared with other buntings. Spring and summer, when males are singing on territory, offer the best chance of a clear view; numbers have declined sharply with agricultural intensification, so it is now local rather than common in much of its range.