Yellow Bunting
Emberiza sulphurata Temminck & Schlegel, 1848
Emberizidae — Buntings
Yellow Bunting, Emberiza sulphurata, is a bunting of eastern Asia in the family Emberizidae. It breeds in montane forest edge in central and northern Honshu in Japan, and in the non-breeding season it moves to scrub and fields in south-east China, Taiwan and mainly northern Philippines. It is an uncommon breeder in Japan and a scarce migrant elsewhere. It is also known as Japanese Yellow Bunting. The species was described by Temminck and Schlegel in 1848.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae — Buntings
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: temperate far e Palearctic forest edge: montane n, c Honshu (nc Japan)
- Nonbreeding range
- far se Asian scrub, fields: se China, Taiwan and (mainly) n Philippines
