---
title: "Escrevedeira-de-faces-castanhas"
description: "Emberiza fucata — Aves. The chestnut-eared bunting (Emberiza fucata), also called grey-headed bunting or grey-hooded bunting, with the latter name also used for grey-necked bunting, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/chestnut-eared-bunting
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Escrevedeira-de-faces-castanhas

> Emberiza fucata — Aves. The chestnut-eared bunting (Emberiza fucata), also called grey-headed bunting or grey-hooded bunting, with the latter name also used for grey-necked bunting, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.

- Scientific name: *Emberiza fucata*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1891
- Wikidata: [Q1586230](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1586230)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9198](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9198)

## Names

- en: Chestnut-eared Bunting
- de: Bandammer
- es: Escribano Orejudo
- fr: Bruant à oreillons
- nl: Grijskopgors
- pt: Escrevedeira-de-faces-castanhas
- pl: Trznadel rdzawouchy

## Countries with the most observations

RU (502), CN (301), JP (166), HK (101), KR (67), TW (45), IN (40), TH (15), MN (8), BD (7), KP (7), PH (5)

## Summary

The chestnut-eared bunting (Emberiza fucata), also called grey-headed bunting or grey-hooded bunting, with the latter name also used for grey-necked bunting, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.
The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific fucata is Latin for "painted"  from fucare, "to paint red".

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

## Photo

![Escrevedeira-de-faces-castanhas](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/chestnut-eared-bunting/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/347399609

## Machine access

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