Yellow-browed Bunting

Emberiza chrysophrys

Small, modestly attractive bunting of brushy areas and open forests. Brown overall with a paler belly and bright yellow-suffused supercilium. Male has mostly black head, female has a predominantly brown head, but the sexes are otherwise rather similar. Head pattern recalls Rustic and Tristram's Buntings, but neither has yellow in the supercilium. Largely solitary, but may appear in small flocks on migration.

Taxonomy

Scientific name
Emberiza chrysophrys
Authority
Pallas, 1776
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Emberizidae
Genus
Emberiza

Range and habitat

Breeding range
PAL : temperate e Palearctic taiga: Irkutsk Oblast and Sakha Republic (sc, ec Russia)
Non-breeding range
subtropical e Asia forest edge: to sc, e China
Migration
Complete migrants

Conservation

Population trend
stable

Photos

Distribution

Bird Calls

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