Yellow-throated Bunting
Emberiza elegans
Attractive songbird of parks, forests, and meadows. The combination of crest and yellow brow and throat unmistakable. Adult male has a black chest patch, mask, and crest combined with a yellow throat and brow. Female is similar but paler and lacks any kind of chest patch. Both sexes have brown backs and lightly marked pale bellies. Usually found in small flocks, foraging within vegetation, often on the ground.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Emberiza elegans
- Authority
- Temminck, 1836
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae
- Genus
- Emberiza
Range and habitat
- Breeding range
- PAL : temperate e Asia forest edge: Amurland, s Khabarovsk and Ussuriland (se Russia), Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang (ne China) to Korean Pen., Oki and Tsushima (c Japan); disjunctly Gansu to Shaanxi and s to Yunnan and Hunan (se, c, se China)
- Non-breeding range
- temperate to subtropical far e Asian woodland and open areas: Korean Pen., Honshu to Ryukyu Is. (c, s Japan), se China and Taiwan
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- stable
Photos
Distribution
Bird Calls
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