Striolated Bunting
Emberiza striolata
Lanky bunting with a gray head, chestnut-brown wings, and a sharp bicolored bill. Male has a intricately streaked face featuring three bright white stripes and dark streaks on the chest. Female has a ghost of the male’s pale stripes, lacking any dark stripes. African subspecies are a richer chestnut and darker-headed than Asian birds. Breeds in rocky scrub often in or near villages and farms. Territorial in the breeding season, but often forms flocks in the winter. Song is a quick series of rolling buzzes and sweet whistles. Call is a simple, sparrowlike chip.
识别特征
It is 14 cm long, similar in size to the house bunting and smaller than the similarly plumaged rock bunting. The breeding male has a chestnut body, and grey head with darker streaking and a white supercilium and moustachial streak. The female's head has a brown tint to the grey, and more diffused streaking.<p>The striolated bunting has stronger facial striping and a paler belly than the north African house bunting, which used to be considered conspecific as the subspecies E. striolata sahari. Birds in eastern Chad (E. striolata jebelmarrae) show some evidence of intergradation with the house bunting.<p>The song, given from a perch, is similar to but weaker than that of the common chaffinch.
分类信息
Genus: Emberiza; Family: Emberizidae; Order: Passeriformes.
- 学名
- Emberiza striolata
- 命名信息
- (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Emberizidae
- 属
- Emberiza
分布与栖息地
It is a resident breeder of dry country from Chad, east through south-west Asia to north-western India and in Africa.<p>It breeds in remote wadis (not around human habitation like the related house bunting), usually close to streams, laying two to four eggs in a nest on the ground or in a hole in the ground. Its natural food consists of seeds, or when feeding young, insects.
- 繁殖区
- PAL, AF : subtropical ne African to sw Asian rocky scrublands: patchily in ne Chad and e Egypt to ne Somalia and s to nw Kenya; Sinai Pen., Israel and w Jordan, Arabian Pen., s Iran, ne Afghanistan, sub-Himalayan Pakistan and far w India
- 非繁殖区
- to wc Indian fields
- 迁徙
- Resident species
行为
Migration pattern: Resident species.
保护状况
Population trend: rising.
- 种群趋势
- rising
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