Editing Common reed bunting (section)

==Taxonomy==
The common reed bunting was [[Species description|described]] by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1758 in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' under the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial]] name ''Fringilla schoeniclus''.<ref name=":0">{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=182 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | place=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=la | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727089 }}</ref> This bunting is now placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Emberiza]]'' that Linnaeus had introduced in the same edition of his ''Systema Naturae''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=176 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | place=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=la | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727083 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | year=2023 | title=Buntings | work=IOC World Bird List |version= v13.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/buntings/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=22 December 2023}}</ref> The specific epithet ''schoeniclus '' is from the [[Ancient Greek]] ''skhoiniklos'', a word that was used by Greek authors for an unidentified bird.<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl | url-access=limited | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl/page/n350 350] }}</ref> Linnaeus specified the [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] as Europe but this is now restricted to Sweden.<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1970 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=13 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=13 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483266 }}</ref> Nineteen [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc/>

The bird family [[Emberizidae]] contains approximately 300 species of seed-eating birds, the majority of which are endemic to the Americas. However, the genus ''[[Emberiza]]'', which comprises over 40 species, is exclusively found in the Old World.<ref name = hbwonlinefam>{{cite journal| editor = Hoyo, Josep del| editor2 = Elliott, Andrew| editor3 = Sargatal, Jordi| editor4 = Christie, David A| title=Emberizidae | journal= Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | date = 2020| url=http://www.hbw.com/family/buntings-and-new-world-sparrows-emberizidae | publisher= Lynx Edicions | doi = 10.2173/bow.emberi2.01| s2cid = 216412784| access-date = 13 April 2014| url-access = subscription}} {{subscription required}}</ref> Within its genus, the reed bunting is most closely related to the [[Japanese reed bunting]] and the [[Pallas's reed bunting]], which are sometimes classified as being in the genus Schoeniclus.

===Subspecies===
Nineteen subspecies are recognised, including- ''E. s. schoeniclus'', the [[nominate subspecies]], which occurs in most of Europe, ''E. s. witherbyi'' which is found in south [[Portugal]], western [[Spain]], France and Sardinia, ''E. s. intermedia'' from [[Italy]] and the [[Adriatic coast]] to northwest [[Albania]], ''E. s. reiseri'' from southeast Albania, northwest [[Greece]], south [[North Macedonia]] and west and central [[Turkey]], ''E. s. caspia'' from east Turkey and northwest [[Iran]], ''E. s. korejewi'' from southwest and eastern Iran and south [[Turkmenistan]], ''E. s. pyrrhuloides'' from north Caspian sea region to western [[Mongolia]], southeast [[Kazakhstan]] and central [[Tien Shan]], ''E. s. passerina'' from northwest Siberia, wintering in south Asia, ''E. s. parvirostris'' from central Siberia wintering in northern [[China]], ''E. s. pyrrhulina'' from [[Kamchatka]] and northern [[Japan]], wintering in central Japan, Korea and eastern China, ''E. s. pallidior'' from southwestern Siberia wintering in southwest Asia, ''E. s. minor'' from [[Russian Far East]] and northeast China, wintering in east China, ''E. s. ukrainae'' from Ukraine and adjacent areas of Russia, ''E. s. incognita'' from southeastern [[European Russia]] to north Kazakhstan and ''E. s. zaidamensis'', endemic to northwest [[Qinghai]], China.