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Yellow-breasted Bunting

Emberiza aureolaOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Codes: Common Name: YBBU Scientific Name: EMBAUR ITIS Taxonomic No.: 554225
Vulnerable
 
Yellow-breasted Bunting Breeding Male
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Overview

Yellow-breasted Bunting: Medium bunting, rufous upperparts, black head. Yellow underparts with dark streaks on sides and flanks, bold chestnut-brown breast band. Black wings with large white shoulder patches, wing-bars. Swift flight, alternates rapid wing beats with wings pulled to sides.


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.

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Topo Map: Perching-like Body


Listen to Call

Voice Text

"fillyu-fillyu-fillyu-fillee-fillee-fillee-teyou-teyou", "tik-tik"

Interesting Facts

 The Yellow-breasted Bunting was first described in 1773 by Peter Simon Pallas, a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.

 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.

 A group of buntings are collectively known as a "decoration", "mural", and "sacrifice" of buntings.


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Author

Gary Owen Dick

Artist

Samira Belous

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Range Map for Yellow-breasted Bunting

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Family Buntings, Finches, Sparrows (Emberizidae)_blue
Species Emberiza aureola
Length5.5 Inches
Wingspan9 Inches

Yellow-breasted Bunting

Yellow-breasted Bunting: Medium bunting, rufous upperparts, black head. Yellow underparts with dark streaks on sides and flanks, bold chestnut-brown breast band. Black wings with large white shoulder patches, wing-bars. Swift flight, alternates rapid wing beats with wings pulled to sides.

● Song: "fillyu-fillyu-fillyu-fillee-fillee-fillee-teyou-teyou", "tik-tik"

● Foraging & Feeding: Yellow-breasted Bunting: Feeds on seeds and insects; forages on the ground.

● Breeding & 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.

● Similar species: Yellow-breasted Bunting: None in range.

Flight Pattern

Swift flight on rapidly beating wings alternating with brief periods of wings pulled to sides.
Yellow-breasted Bunting Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & 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.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationCasual
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.8 Ounces
Perching-like BodyX
UnderpartsX
Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.
UpperpartsX
Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.
BreastX
The upper front part of a bird.
ShoulderX
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 codesX

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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ITIS CodesX

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990�s as a cooperative project among several federal agencies to improve and expand upon taxonomic data (known as the NODC Taxonomic Code) maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

To find the ITIS page for a bird species go to the ITIS web site advanced search and report page at http://www.itis.gov/advanced_search.html. You can enter the TSN or the common name of the bird. It will return the ITIS page for that bird. Another way to obtain the ITIS page is to use the Google search engine. Enter the string ITIS followed by the taxonomic ID, for example "ITIS 178041" will return the page for the Allen's Hummingbird.

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Parts of a Standing birdX
Head Feathers and MarkingsX
Parts of a Flying birdX