Yellow-breasted Bunting

Yellow-breasted Bunting (Emberiza aureola )

The Yellow-breasted Bunting (Emberiza aureola ) is a species of bird in the bunting family ( Emberizidae ).

Like the Snow Bunting, the Bunting and Little Bunting is the Yellow-breasted Bunting is a bird of the northern regions.

Description

The Yellow-breasted Bunting is easily distinguished from other species. The male has a black face, a dark chestnut- brown back and neck as well as a bright yellow underside. Another feature is a narrow chestnut-brown breast band. Unlike other buntings the bottom is only slightly touched upon. On the wings there is a distinctive white shoulder patch and a white transverse band. At the extreme tail feathers, the animals possess a white drawing. The female also has a striking appearance, but is slightly paler. On the yellow belly but there is no breast band. Recalls the much brighter head, with a white eye-streak over and a side stripe, which are bounded by darker color, to a aquatic warbler. Otherwise, the female resembles the male.

Dissemination

The Yellow-breasted Bunting preferred open spaces. In the summer she enjoys living on lush meadows with bushes, often near water. But they are also found in steppes. The Yellow-breasted Bunting is a bird of passage. In the summer it breeds in central Finland, in northern Russia to Siberia. During the winter they spend in South East Asia, India and southern China. Rare but regularly, some animals also lost to Western Europe. In Germany they are mostly seen on Helgoland.

Voice and food

The call of the Yellow-breasted Bunting is a short " zip" or " zig " or a soft " trssit ". The song is a sounding loud and melodious verse, such as " djüldjül -Tie -Tie - zitü ". But he has similarities with the singing of the ortolan is faster and smoother. The diet consists of fine seeds and insects.

Brood

The nest is always applied near the ground in dense bushes or soils with dense vegetation. It consists of grass and is lined with finer grass and hair for padding. Down 4-5 are pale greenish-gray, sparsely black eggs, which are incubated about 13 days. Every year there is a brood.