Yellow-breasted Buntings
Buntings
The Yellow-breasted Bunting, Emberiza aureola, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
Distribution / Breeding:
It breeds in northeast Europe and across northern Asia. It is migratory, wintering in southeast Asia, India, and southern China. It is a rare but regular wanderer to western Europe.
Yellow-Breasted Bunting breeds in open scrubby areas, often near water, and it is very common in Siberia. It lays 4-6 eggs in a nest on the ground.
Diet / Feeding:
Its natural food consists of insects when feeding young, and otherwise seeds.
Description:
This bird is similar in size to a Reed Bunting, but longer-billed. The breeding male has bright yellow underparts with black flank streaks, brown upperparts, black face and throat bar, and a pink lower beak.
The female has a heavily streaked grey-brown back, and less intensely yellow underparts. She has a whitish face with dark crown, eye and cheek stripes. The juvenile is similar, but the background color of the underparts and face is buff.
Call / Song:
The call is a distinctive zick, and the song is a clear tru-tru, tri-tri.[1]
References
- Yellow Breasted Bunting, www.whatbird.com, date unknown (accessed 20 January 2007)
- BirdLife International (2004). Emberiza aureola. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened
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