Tristram's Bunting
Emberiza tristrami
Small and distinctive bunting, usually seen moving around quietly in thick undergrowth. Warm rusty brown with a black-and-white striped head. Bold head pattern resembles that of Yellow-browed and Rustic Buntings but lacks both the bright yellow in the brow of the former and the crest of the latter. Breeds in forests with dense undergrowth, particularly hill forests. Winters in brushy forest environments.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Emberiza tristrami
- Authority
- Swinhoe, 1870
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae
- Genus
- Emberiza
Range and habitat
- Breeding range
- PAL : temperate far ne Palearctic mixed/conifer forest: Amurland and Ussuriland, (se Russia), n Outer Mongolia and Heilongjiang (ne China) and n, c Korean Pen.
- Non-breeding range
- subtropical e Asian wooded hills: e to far ne India, n Myanmar, s, ec China and n Vietnam
- Migration
- Complete migrants
Conservation
- Population trend
- stable
Photos
Distribution
Bird Calls
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