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Emberiza aureola , Photo: Michael Lahanas Cladus: Eukaryota
Emberiza aureola
Name Emberiza aureola Pallas, 1773 Synonyms * Emberiza luteola Reference Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs 2 p.711 Vernacular names
The Yellow-breasted Bunting, Emberiza aureola, is an Eurasian passerine bird in the bunting family (Emberizidae). This bird is similar in size to a Reed Bunting, but longer-billed. The breeding male has bright yellow underparts with black flank streaks, brown upperparts, black face and throat bar, and a pink lower mandible. The female has a heavily streaked grey-brown back, and less intensely yellow underparts. She has a whitish face with dark crown, eye and cheek stripes. The juvenile is similar, but the background colour of the underparts and face is buff. The call is a distinctive zick, and the song is a clear tru-tru, tri-tri. It breeds in northeastern Europe and across northern Asia. It is migratory, wintering in southeast Asia, India, and southern China. It is a rare but regular wanderer to western Europe. The Yellow-breasted Bunting breeds in open scrubby areas, often near water, and it is very common in Siberia. It lays 4-6 eggs in a nest on the ground. Its food consists of insects when feeding young, and otherwise seeds. It was formerly classified as a Near Threatened species by the IUCN.[1] But new research has shown it to be rarer than it was believed. Consequently, it is uplisted to Vulnerable status in 2008.[2] Footnotes 1. ^ BLI (2004)
* BirdLife International (BLI) (2004). Emberiza aureola. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Source: Wikipedia, Wikispecies: All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License |
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