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Gray Bunting
Emberiza variabilis
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About the Gray Bunting
The grey bunting (Emberiza variabilis) is a species of bird in the family Emberizidae. It breeds in southern Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands and northern Japan, it migrates to southern Japan and the Nansei archipelago. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and temperate forests.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Emberiza variabilis
- Family
- Old World Buntings
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the old world buntings family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Pallas's Bunting Emberiza pallasi
- Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos
- Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
- Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica
- Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola
- Yellow-browed Bunting Emberiza chrysophrys
- Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans
- Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella
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