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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
An Ortolan rests on the ground |
| Image notes: |
This lone Ortolan studies the Yell landscape. |
| Species in Image: |
Ortolan Bunting |
| Date: |
1987 |
| Area: |
Yell |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc02067 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Ortolan Bunting |
| Latin Name |
Emberiza hortulana |
| Latin Group Name |
Passeriformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Emberizidae |
| Common Family Name |
Buntings |
| Description |
Very scarce passage migrant. Records have been annual since the 1960s. Breeding over much of Europe and the Middle East they winter in Africa south of the Sahara.
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