In the last decade, the Ortolan bunting has gone from "vulnerable" to "acutely threatened" in Sweden. Until recently, at least 30,000 Ortolan buntings were caught per year in France alone (to be eaten as gourmet food) - on their way from their winter quarters in Mali or Guinea to Sweden. But this does not seem to be the biggest threat - that is the restructuring of Swedish agriculture - from small farms to larger farming units, the ortolan bunting has been disadvantaged. Today it has disappeared from all of Götaland and southern Svealand. In the rest of the country it is found sporadically, e.g. in an area west of Umeå...