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Pine Bunting (Emberiza leucocephalos)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks January · Old World Buntings · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Pine Bunting (Emberiza leucocephalos)
Jargal Lamjav from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Pine Bunting: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Pine Bunting has been recorded in 14 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in January.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
HP61Shetland Islands, Scotland72003 to 2020unverified
HP50Shetland Islands, Scotland12020unverified
TR26Kent, England12018unverified
SE65York, England492017unverified
TQ96Kent, England192011 to 2017unverified
SJ50Shropshire, England142017unverified
SE35North Yorkshire, England12017unverified
HZ27Shetland Islands, Scotland72007 to 2016unverified
HP60Shetland Islands, Scotland22016unverified
SY66Dorset, England12016unverified
SO94Worcestershire, England92005unverified
TF74Norfolk, England212004unverified
TA18North Yorkshire, England22001unverified
SM70Pembrokeshire, Wales12000unverified

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.