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Yellow-browed Bunting
Emberiza chrysophrys
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About the Yellow-browed Bunting
The yellow-browed bunting (Emberiza chrysophrys) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern taxonomists from the finches (Fringillidae). The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific chrysophrys is from Ancient Greek khrusophrus, "golden-browed". It breeds in eastern Siberia and is migratory, wintering in central and southern China. It is a very rare wanderer to western Europe. The yellow-browed bunting breeds in the taiga zone, and lays four eggs in an arboreal nest. In the wild, the adults' diet consists of seeds, but they feed insects to nestlings. This bird is smaller than a reed bunting, but is relatively large-headed.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Emberiza chrysophrys
- 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-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola
- Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans
- Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella
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