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Black-faced Bunting
Emberiza spodocephala Pallas, 1776
Emberizidae — Buntings
Black-faced Bunting, Emberiza spodocephala, is a passerine bunting of the family Emberizidae that breeds in shrubby woodland across the Palearctic, from Russia and northern Mongolia to the Sea of Okhotsk and northern Sakhalin, with further breeding areas in parts of China and the Korean Peninsula. It also breeds in scattered areas from Qinghai and Shaanxi south to Yunnan and Guizhou. In the non-breeding season it occurs in subtropical eastern Asia, including Nepal, the north-eastern Himalayas, south-east Asia, southern and eastern China, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae — Buntings
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: temperate nc, ne, c Palearctic shrubby areas in woodland: sc Russia and n Mongolia e to Sea of Okhotsk and n Sakhalin (se Russia) and s to ne Inner Mongolia, n Heilongjiang (ne China) and n, c Korean Pen.; disjunctly Qinghai and Shaanxi s to Yunnan and Guizhou (c China)
- Nonbreeding range
- Palearctic, Oriental Region: subtropical e Asian disturbed areas, wetlands : c Nepal through ne Himalayas, n se Asia, s, e China, Taiwan and Ryukyu Is. (=Nansei Shoto, s Japan)
