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Meadow Bunting
Emberiza cioides Brandt, JF, 1843
Emberizidae — Buntings
Meadow Bunting, Emberiza cioides, is a bunting of the Palearctic, breeding in open woods across eastern Kazakhstan and eastern Kyrgyzstan, through southern Russia, Mongolia and north-east China to Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, and south to northern Xinjiang, Yunnan and Zhejiang, the Korean Peninsula and Hokkaido to Yakushima. Some birds move to lower elevations outside the breeding season. It is a passerine in the family Emberizidae, first described by Brandt in 1843. It is also known as the Siberian meadow bunting.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae — Buntings
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: temperate c, e Palearctic open woods: e Kazakhstan and e Kyrgyzstan through s Russia, Mongolia, ne China to Sakhalin and Kuril Is. (se Russia); in s to n Xinjiang, Yunnan and Zhejiang (nw, sc, se China), Korean Pen., and Hokkaido to Yakushima (n to s Japan)
- Nonbreeding range
- some move to lower elevations
