Ortolan Bunting
Emberiza hortulana
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Old World Buntings (Emberizidae)
- Order
- Passeriformes
Overview
The ortolan (Emberiza hortulana), also called ortolan bunting, is a Eurasian bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a passerine family now separated by most modern scholars from the finches, Fringillidae. The genus name Emberiza is from Alemannic German Embritz, a bunting. The specific name hortulana is from the Italian name for this bird, ortolana. The English ortolan is derived from Middle French hortolan, "gardener".
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds Western Palearctic; winters Mediterranean environs, Arabia, and Africa.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Chad
- China
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Guinea
- Hungary
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Uzbekistan
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Ortolan bunting
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
