Yellow-breasted Bunting

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. But new research has shown it to be rarer than it was believed. Consequently, it is uplisted to Vulnerable status in 2008.

Translation of "Yellow-breasted Bunting"

Breton: Brean-haleg, Czech: Strnad obojkový, German: Weidenammer, Estonian: Kuldtsiitsitaja, French: Bruant auréole, Hungarian: Aranyos sármány, Malay: Burung Pipit Dada Kuning, Dutch: Wilgengors, Japanese: シマアオジ, Norwegian (Bokmål): Sibirspurv, Polish: Trznadel złotawy, Portuguese: Escrevedeira-aureolada, Sakha: Талах чыычааҕа, Finnish: Kultasirkku, Swedish: Gyllensparv, Turkish: Kuşaklı kiraz kuşu, Chinese: 黄胸鹀.