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Grey-necked Bunting
Emberiza buchanani Blyth, 1845
Emberizidae — Buntings
Grey-necked Bunting, Emberiza buchanani, is a passerine of the bunting family that breeds across dry rocky hills in the south-west to central Palearctic, from eastern Turkey and north-east Iraq through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, southern Turkmenistan, eastern Uzbekistan, central and eastern Kazakhstan, south-central Russia and western, central and southern Mongolia, with a southern extension through Afghanistan to north-central Pakistan and western, northern Xinjiang. It also moves to south-east Pakistan, far western, north-central and south-central India, where it uses rocky fields. It was described by Blyth in 1845.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae — Buntings
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: temperate montane sw to sc Palearctic dry rocky hills: e Turkey, ne Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, s Turkmenistan, e Uzbekistan, c, e Kazakhstan, sc Russia and w, c, s Mongolia; in s through Afghanistan to nc Pakistan and w, n Xinjiang (nw China)
- Nonbreeding range
- to se Pakistan, far w, nc, sc India, in rocky fields
