Bird name:

Rustic Bunting

Emberiza rustica

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Sparrows (Emberizidae)

Code 4

RUBU

Code 6

EMBRUS

ITIS

179538

Breeding Location:

Forests, coniferous, Bushes, shrubs, and thickets

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Casual to accidential on northwest coast

Egg Color:

Light blue or green with dark markings

Number of Eggs:

4 - 5

Incubation Days:

11 - 13

Egg Incubator:

Both sexes

Nest Material:

Grasses, moss, and stems., Lined with finer grasses, hair, roots, and feathers.

Migration:

Migratory

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General

Rustic Bunting: Medium-sized bunting with bright chestnut-brown upperparts streaked with black on back. Throat and belly are white, breast band is cinnamon-brown, and sides and flanks are streaked. Black head has slight crest and thick white eyebrow. Tail is dark brown with white edges. Female and winter adults have chestnut-brown rumps, brown crowns and cheeks, and white underparts streaked with brown. Juvenile is duller overall and has darker brown streaks.

Range and Habitat

Rustic Bunting: Eurasian species. During migration, visits Aleutians and other islands in the Bering Sea; casual along the Pacific coast to California. Preferred habitats include coniferous forests, riparian thickets, wet taiga, scrub, and brushy areas.

Breeding and Nesting

Rustic Bunting: Four to five light blue or green eggs with dark markings are laid in a cup nest made of grass, moss, and stems, lined with finer grass, hair, roots, and feathers, and built on the ground atop a grassy tussock, tree roots, or low in a shrub. Incubation ranges from 11 to 13 days and is carried out by both parents.

Foraging and Feeding

Rustic Bunting: Eats insects and seeds. Forages on the ground and gleans insects from low vegetation.

Readily Eats

Safflower, Apple Slices, Suet, Millet, Peanut Kernels, Fruit

Vocalization

Rustic Bunting: Song is a gentle, trilled, gurgling warble. Call is abrasive "sit" or "tsip."

Similar Species

Rustic Bunting: Little Bunting is smaller, has shorter legs, rust-brown crown and cheeks, and lacks short crest.

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Underparts

Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Belly

The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.

Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

Crest

Tufts of feathers on the head of the bird.

Eyebrow

Also called the supercilicum or superciliary it is the arch of feathers over each eye.

Riparian

Relating to or living or located on the bank of a natural watercourse (as a river) or sometimes of a lake or a tidewater.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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