grey bunting

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| image = Emberiza variabilis (0s5).JPG

| image_caption = Emberiza variabilis male in Japan

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=Emberiza variabilis |volume=2018 |page=e.T22721003A132005733 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22721003A132005733.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| taxon = Emberiza variabilis

| authority = Temminck, 1836

}}

The grey bunting (Emberiza variabilis) is a species of bird in the family Emberizidae.

It breeds in southern Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands and northern Japan, it migrates to southern Japan and the Nansei archipelago. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and temperate forests.