The largest member of the bunting family, the corn bunting is sometimes known affectionately as the "corn dumpling". The male lacks the showy colouring of others in the bunting family; both male and ...

Status: The corn bunting is found throughout lowland England and Scotland, although it is absent from Wales and Northern Ireland. It is very much a bird associated with farmland, in particular open ...

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A farmland bird is thought to have vanished from parts of the Western Isles and is facing extinction in other areas, RSPB Scotland has warned. For the first time since monitoring for corn bunting ...

The heart-warming sight of a flock of 'fat' Corn Bunting birds has got ornithologists in a flutter as it gives renewed hope for the dying breed. Numbers of the brown farmbirds have plunged by nearly ...

Corn bunting song is described as sounding like jangling keys Farmland near Inverness Airport has provided an at risk bird with its last stronghold in the Highlands, according to RSPB Scotland. The ...

FARMERS have been hailed as the saviours of one of Scotland’s fastest declining birds – the corn bunting. Conservationists say winter seed food and other management techniques deployed on a number of ...

It looks like a sparrow on steroids, or a skylark that needs to go on a diet. Its best-known country name, 'fat bird of the barley', reflects its corpulent appearance and preference for arable crops.

Filmed in the west of Ireland, it celebrates the few places still free of man-made sounds. The stars of the piece are birds. Curlews whimbrels and snipe sing and drum as the camera pans lovingly over ...

UK corn bunting populations have suffered from dramatic declines in numbers, according to the RSPB A farmland bird is thought to have vanished from parts of the Western Isles and is facing extinction ...