Masked Bunting
Emberiza personata
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,622
- Most observed in
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The masked bunting (Emberiza personata) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is found in Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Japan. The masked bunting was formerly considered as a subspecies of the black-faced bunting (Emberiza spodocephala) but is now treated as a separate species based on morphological and genetic differences. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Masked bunting”.