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title: "Red-headed Bunting"
description: "Emberiza bruniceps — Birds. The red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/red-headed-bunting
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Red-headed Bunting

> Emberiza bruniceps — Birds. The red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.

- Scientific name: *Emberiza bruniceps*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1034
- Wikidata: [Q547159](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q547159)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9215](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9215)

## Names

- en: Red-headed Bunting
- de: Braunkopfammer
- es: Escribano Carirrojo
- fr: Bruant à tête rousse
- nl: Bruinkopgors
- pt: Escrevedeira-de-cabeça-ruiva
- pl: Trznadel rudogłowy

## Countries with the most observations

IN (330), RU (190), KZ (189), UZ (77), IR (48), KG (37), CN (24), HK (14), TJ (9), PK (6), GB (4), FI (3)

## Summary

The red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds in central Asia, including Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia; Russia (European Russia, Central Asian Russia), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and China. It is migratory, wintering in India and Bangladesh. Its status in western Europe, where it is a vagrant, has been confused by escapes, especially as this species has been more commonly recorded than the closely related black-headed bunting, despite the latter having a more westerly breeding range. Reports in Britain have declined dramatically…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-headed_bunting

## Photo

![Red-headed Bunting](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-headed-bunting/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/279765805

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-headed-bunting?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).