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title: "Escribano enmascarado japonés"
description: "Emberiza personata — Aves. The masked bunting (Emberiza personata) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/masked-bunting
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Escribano enmascarado japonés

> Emberiza personata — Aves. The masked bunting (Emberiza personata) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.

- Scientific name: *Emberiza personata*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 4592
- Wikidata: [Q55130401](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55130401)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1437051](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1437051)

## Names

- en: Masked Bunting
- de: Japanische Maskenammer
- es: Escribano enmascarado japonés
- fr: Bruant de Temminck

## Countries with the most observations

JP (1700), RU (314), KR (19)

## Summary

The masked bunting (Emberiza personata) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is found in Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Japan.
The masked bunting was formerly considered as a subspecies of the black-faced bunting (Emberiza spodocephala) but is now treated as a separate species based on morphological and genetic differences. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.

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

## Photo

![Escribano enmascarado japonés](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/masked-bunting/medium.jpg)

Photo: renshuchu · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155597780

## Machine access

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