Grey-necked Bunting - BirdForum Opus

Subspecies E. b. cerrutii
Photo © by Bjorn Svensson
Theran, Iran, May 2005

Alternative name: Grey-hooded Bunting

Emberiza buchanani

Identification

Nominate subspecies
Photo © by S K Gudi
Hubli, Karnataka, India, February 2018

16 cm (6 in)

• Light pink bill
• Whitish eye-ring

Distribution

Middle East, Asia
Middle East: Turkey, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
Asia: Russia, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, Tibet, Pakistan, India, Western Himalayas

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• E. b. cerrutii:

• Eastern Turkey, Russia south of the Caucasus to Iran; Mugodzhary Mountains

• E. b. buchanani:

• Afghanistan to western Pakistan; > to south-eastern India

• E. b. neobscura:

• Tajikistan to western Xinjiang, eastern Kazakstan and western Mongolia

Habitat

Tree-less rocky mountain slopes, high plateaux and ravines with clumps of grass and weeds.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of a variety of seeds and plants.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2015)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Grey-necked Bunting. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Grey-necked_Bunting

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