The rustic bunting (Emberiza rustica) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.

It is migratory, wintering in south-east Asia, Japan, Korea, and eastern China.

Its natural food consists of seeds, and when feeding young, insects.

The summer male has a black head with a white throat and supercilium and a reddish breast band.

She resembles a female reed bunting, but has the reddish flank streaks, a chestnut nape and a pink, not grey, lower mandible.