Editing Common reed bunting (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Common reed bunting
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 13 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International |year=2019 |title=''Emberiza schoeniclus'' |amends=2018 |page=e.T22721012A155430396 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22721012A155430396.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref>
| image = Common reed bunting (emberiza schoeniclus) m.jpg
| image_caption = Male
| image2 = Common reed bunting (emberiza schoeniclus) f.jpg
| image2_caption = Female – Both at [[Otmoor]], [[Oxfordshire]]<br/>
[[File:Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) (W1CDR0001379 BD4).ogg|thumb|center|Male bird recorded in [[Norfolk]], England]] 
| taxon = Emberiza schoeniclus
| authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])<ref name=":0" /> 
| synonyms = * ''Fringilla schoeniclus'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> 
* ''Schoeniclus schoeniclus'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
| range_map = EmberizaSchoeniclusIUCN2019-3.png
| range_map_caption = Range of ''E. schoeniclus''{{leftlegend|#00FF00|Breeding|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#008000|Resident|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#00FFFF|Passage|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#007FFF|Non-breeding|outline=gray}} 
| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
| subdivision = 
* ''E. s. schoeniclus'' {{small|(Linnaeus, 1758)}}
* ''E. s. caspia'' {{small|Ménétries, 1832}}
* ''E. s. centralasiae'' {{small|Hartert, 1904}}
* ''E. s. harterti'' {{small|Sushkin, 1906}}
* ''E. s. incognita''  {{small|(Zarudny, 1917)}}
* ''E. s. intermedia'' {{small|Degland, 1849}}
* ''E. s. korejewi'' {{small|(Zarudny, 1907)}}
* ''E. s. lusitanica'' {{small|Steinbacher, 1930}}
* ''E. s. pallidior'' {{small|Hartert, 1904}}
* ''E. s. parvirostris'' {{small|Buturlin, 1910}}
* ''E. s. passerina'' {{small|Pallas, 1771}}
* ''E. s. pyrrhulina'' {{small|(Swinhoe, 1876)}}
* ''E. s. pyrrhuloides'' {{small|Pallas, 1811}}
* ''E. s. reiseri'' {{small|Hartert, 1904}}
* ''E. s. schoeniclus'' {{small|(Linnaeus, 1758)}}
* ''E. s. stresemanni'' {{small|[[Friedrich Steinbacher|Steinbacher]], 1930}}
* ''E. s. tschusii''  {{small|Reiser and Almasy, 1898}}
* ''E. s. ukrainae'' {{small|(Zarudny, 1917)}}
* ''E. s. witherbyi'' {{small|von Jordans, 1923}}
* ''E. s. zaidamensis'' {{small|Portenko, 1929}} 
}}

The '''common reed bunting''' ('''''Emberiza schoeniclus''''') is a [[passerine]] [[bird]] in the [[Emberiza|bunting]] family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the [[finch]]es, Fringillidae. The genus name ''Emberiza'' is from [[Old High German|Old German]] ''Embritz'', a bunting. The specific ''schoeniclus'' is from [[Ancient Greek]] ''skhoiniklos'', a now unknown waterside bird.<ref name =job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London, United Kingdom | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages = 145, 350}}</ref>

It breeds throughout Europe and much of the [[Palearctic]]. Most birds [[bird migration|migrate]] south in winter, but those in the milder south and west of the range are resident. It is common in reedbeds and also breeds in drier open areas such as moorland and arable land. For example, it is a component of the [[purple moor grass and rush pastures]],  a type of [[Biodiversity action plan|Biodiversity Action Plan]] habitat in the UK. It occurs on poorly drained neutral and acid soils of the lowlands and upland fringe.