Bird name:

Yellow-breasted Bunting

Emberiza aureola

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Sparrows (Emberizidae)

Code 4

YBBU

Code 6

EMBAUR

ITIS

554225

Breeding Location:

Bushes, shrubs, and thickets, Grasslands

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Casual

Egg Color:

Green gray or pale blue green marked with brown

Number of Eggs:

4 - 5

Incubation Days:

Egg Incubator:

Female

Nest Material:

Grasses, Lined with mammal hair and fine grass.

Migration:

Migratory

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General

Yellow-breasted Bunting: Medium-sized bunting with rufous upperparts and black head. Underparts are yellow with dark streaks on sides and flanks, and bold chestnut-brown breast band. Wings are black with large white shoulder patches and wing-bars. Female is duller with streaked gray-brown upperparts, pale yellow underparts with streaks on sides and flanks, and lacks black head and breast markings. Juvenile resembles female but has more extensively streaked underparts.

Range and Habitat

Yellow-breasted Bunting: Eurasian native; range includes Finland, Belarus, and Ukraine in the west, through Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia, to far eastern Russia, Korea and northern Japan; in spring migration occasionally visits western Aleutian Islands. Breeds in wet meadows with tall vegetation and scattered scrub, riverside thickets, and secondary scrub; winters in large flocks in cultivated areas, rice fields, reed beds, and grasslands.

Breeding and Nesting

Yellow-breasted Bunting: Four to five green gray or pale blue green eggs with brown markings are laid in a nest made of grasses lined with mammal hair and fine grass, built on the ground or in low bush. Female incubates eggs for 13 days.

Foraging and Feeding

Yellow-breasted Bunting: Feeds on seeds and insects; forages on the ground.

Readily Eats

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

Vocalization

Yellow-breasted Bunting: Song is a loud melodious warble "fillyu-fillyu-fillyu-fillee-fillee-fillee-teyou-teyou." Call is a low "tik-tik."

Similar Species

Yellow-breasted Bunting: None in range.

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Underparts

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

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

Shoulder

The short feathers overlying the median secondary coverts on the top of the wing. They are located near the back and can be seen as the “first row” of feathers on the birds wing. They are also called marginal coverts and lesser secondary coverts.

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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