Yellow-breasted Bunting
Emberiza aureola
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Epic
- Observations
- 1,526
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Critically Endangered
Description
The yellow-breasted bunting (Emberiza aureola) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae that is found across the Boreal and East Palearctic. The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific aureola is Latin for "golden". The bird's call is a distinctive zick, and the song is a clear tru-tru, tri-tri. Until 2004, the International Union for Conservation of Nature considered the yellow-breasted bunting to be a species of least concern. Since 2004, it has been gradually upgraded to a status of Critically Endangered due to rapid drops in population sizes. It is subject to heavy hunting pressure in China, through which most specimens pass during migration.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Yellow-breasted bunting”.