Cinereous Bunting
Emberiza cineracea
Similar to Ortolan and Cretzschmar's Buntings. Males are faintly-streaked with a yellow-green head. Some populations have a yellow belly while others have a gray-white belly. Females and young lack bright yellow tones and are faintly streaked on the throat and breast. Belly whitish, not orange or buff like Ortolan and Cretzschmar’s Bunting. Breeds on open rocky mountain slopes with scattered bushes. During migration found in a varity of open habitats. Flight call is similar to that of Cretzschmar's Bunting, a sharp "Tzip."
识别特征
The cinereous bunting is a large (16–17 cm), slim bunting with a long, white-cornered tail. The term cinereous describes its colouration. It is less streaked than many buntings and has a thick pale bill. It has a greyish back with only subdued dark markings, and a browner tint to the wings.<p>The adult male's head is dull yellow, with a brighter moustachial line and throat. In the nominate race of south-west Turkey, the rest of the underparts are grey, but the eastern form E. c. semenowi has yellow underparts.<p>Females are brownish grey above with a whitish throat and yellow only in the moustachial stripe. Young birds have a plain pale belly and streaking on the breast.
分类信息
- 学名
- Emberiza cineracea
- 命名信息
- Brehm, CL, 1855
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Emberizidae
- 属
- Emberiza
分布与栖息地
The cinereous bunting breeds on dry stony mountain slopes. It breeds in southern Turkey and southern Iran, and winters around the Red Sea in north-eastern Africa and Yemen. A few isolated populations just about maintain a foothold within European borders, on islands in the Aegean Sea.
- 繁殖区
- PAL : sc W Palearctic dry rocky hills: Lesbos and Chios (e Greece), sw, c, se Turkey, n Iraq and far nw Iran
- 非繁殖区
- coastal s Red Sea from ne Sudan through Eritrea and sw Arabian Pen., in dry open areas
- 迁徙
- Complete migrants
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- declining
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