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Yellow-browed Bunting
Emberiza chrysophrys Pallas, 1776
Emberizidae — Buntings
Yellow-browed Bunting, Emberiza chrysophrys, is a bunting of the family Emberizidae that breeds in the taiga of Irkutsk Oblast and Sakha Republic in south-central and eastern Russia, and winters along forest edges in south-central and eastern China. Its breeding male has a black head with a white crown, moustachial stripes and throat, plus a bright yellow eyebrow stripe. Females and young birds show a softer head pattern with brown replacing black, but they still keep some yellow above the eye and at least a trace of white on the crown.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae — Buntings
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: temperate e Palearctic taiga: Irkutsk Oblast and Sakha Republic (sc, ec Russia)
- Nonbreeding range
- subtropical e Asia forest edge: to sc, e China
