- Rustic Bunting
Taxobox
name = Rustic Bunting
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Passeriformes
familia =Emberizidae
genus = "Emberiza "
species = "E. rustica"
binomial = "Emberiza rustica"
binomial_authority = Pallas, 1776The Rustic Bunting, "Emberiza rustica", is apasserine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from thefinch es, Fringillidae.It breeds across northern
Europe andAsia . It is migratory, wintering in south east Asia,Japan , and easternChina . It is a rare wanderer to western Europe.It breeds in wet
conifer ous woodland. 4-6 eggs are laid in a nest in a bush or on the ground. Its natural food consists of insects when feeding young, and otherwise seeds.This bird is similar in size to a
Reed Bunting . It has white underparts with reddish flank, pink legs and a pink lower mandible. The summer male has a black head with a white throat and supercilium and a reddish breast band.The female has a heavily streaked brown back and brown face with a whitish supercilium. She resembles a female Reed Bunting, but has the reddish flank streaks, a chestnut nape and a pink, not grey, lower mandible.
The call is a distinctive "zit", and the song is a melancholic "delee-deloo-delee".
References
* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
External links
* [http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?action=searchresult&Bird_ID=1945 OBC] 11 photographs (see pulldown menu at page bottom)
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