Cretzschmar's Bunting, Emberiza caesia, is a species of passerine bird in the bunting family found in unvegetated or sparsely vegetated land ecosystems.

Emberiza caesia has a breeding population size of 15000-40000 pairs and a breeding range size of 6100 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Increasing in the short term and Unknown in the long term.

The EU population status of Emberiza caesia was assessed as Secure, because the species does not meet any of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened or Near Threatened, or the criteria for Depleted or Declining (the EU27 population or range has not declined by 20% or more since 1980).