Rustic Bunting

Rustic Bunting (Emberiza rustica)

The Rustic Bunting (Emberiza rustica) is a species of bird in the bunting family ( Emberizidae ).

Description

The Waldammer has quite vibrant colors and is easily distinguished from other species. However, it has similarities with the reed bunting.

On the top of the animals are brownish with dark stripes. The head is the male black, with a white eye-streak over and a white throat. In the female the head is rather mottled with brown and not black. The head feathers form a recognizable hood, which is unique among buntings. The neck, breast and flanks are reddish brown.

The Waldammer is about 15 cm long and 16-21 g in weight. The wing length of 7.5-8.5 cm.

Dissemination

The Rustic Bunting is a bird of passage. Its summer areas are in the northern latitudes - it comes from Scandinavia to northern Russia to the Bering Strait before. Its wintering areas in the southern East Asia. Here you can find him in eastern China and Japan. This bunting breeds by preference in the humid boreal forests.

Voice and food

The song is similar to the robin or the Dunnock. The calls are high, " twüit " or hard, and short " tik tik - ... ". The diet consists mainly of seeds and insects as well as berries.

Brood

Hatched is once a year. The nest, a cup of stalks and moss, lined with fine grass and hair. It is usually located on the ground or near the ground in dense vegetation. 4-5 white to greenish- blue or gray-brown to olive-colored eggs are incubated at 12 to 13 days. After 9 to 10 days the young are fledged.