The importance of farmland for Ortolan Buntings nesting on raised peat bogs

Abstract

The majority of the Norwegian population ofthe endangered Ortolan Bunting, Emberiza hortulana, breeds on raised peat bogs. I studied whether their breeding site selection was affected by the availability of another habitat (farmland) close to bogs. At the landscape level, Ortolan Buntings always chose peat bogs that had farmland