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Yellow-breasted Bunting
Emberiza aureola
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About the Yellow-breasted Bunting
The yellow-breasted bunting (Emberiza aureola) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae that is found across the Boreal and East Palearctic. The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific aureola is Latin for "golden". The bird's call is a distinctive zick, and the song is a clear tru-tru, tri-tri. Until 2004, the International Union for Conservation of Nature considered the yellow-breasted bunting to be a species of least concern. Since 2004, it has been gradually upgraded to a status of Critically Endangered due to rapid drops in population sizes. It is subject to heavy hunting pressure in China, through which most specimens pass during migration.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Emberiza aureola
- 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.
- Gray Bunting Emberiza variabilis
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Pallas's Bunting Emberiza pallasi
- Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos
- Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
- Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica
- Yellow-browed Bunting Emberiza chrysophrys
- Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans
- Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella
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