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Rustic Bunting

Emberiza rusticaOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Sparrows (Emberizidae)

Rustic Bunting Breeding Male Portrait
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General

Rustic Bunting: Medium-sized bunting with bright chestnut-brown upperparts streaked with black on back. Throat and belly are white, breast band is cinnamon-brown, and sides and flanks are streaked. Black head has slight crest and thick white eyebrow. Tail is dark brown with white edges. Female and winter adults have chestnut-brown rumps, brown crowns and cheeks, and white underparts streaked with brown. Juvenile is duller overall and has darker brown streaks.

Range and Habitat

Rustic Bunting: Eurasian species. During migration, visits Aleutians and other islands in the Bering Sea; casual along the Pacific coast to California. Preferred habitats include coniferous forests, riparian thickets, wet taiga, scrub, and brushy areas.

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"sit", "tsip"

Interesting Facts

 The Rustic Bunting was first described in 1776 by Peter Simon Pallas, a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.

 A group of buntings are collectively known as a "decoration", "mural", and "sacrifice" of buntings.



Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Family Buntings, Finches, Sparrows (Emberizidae)_blue
Species Emberiza rustica
Length5.75 - 6 Inches
Wingspan9.75 Inches

Rustic Bunting

Rustic Bunting: Medium bunting with bright chestnut-brown upperparts streaked with black on back. Throat and belly are white, breast band is cinnamon-brown, and sides and flanks are streaked. Black head has slight crest and thick white eyebrow. The tail is dark brown with white edges.

● Song: "sit", "tsip"

● Foraging & Feeding: Rustic Bunting: Eats insects and seeds. Forages on the ground and gleans insects from low vegetation.

● Breeding & nesting: Rustic Bunting: Four to five light blue or green eggs with dark markings are laid in a cup nest made of grass, moss, and stems, lined with finer grass, hair, roots, and feathers, and built on the ground atop a grassy tussock, tree roots, or low in a shrub. Incubation ranges from 11 to 13 days and is carried out by both parents.

● Similar species: Rustic Bunting: Little Bunting is smaller, has shorter legs, rust-brown crown and cheeks, and lacks short crest.

Flight Pattern

Short flights., Alternates several rapid wing beats with wings pulled to sides.
Rustic Bunting Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Rustic Bunting: Eurasian species. During migration, visits Aleutians and other islands in the Bering Sea; casual along the Pacific coast to California. Preferred habitats include coniferous forests, riparian thickets, wet taiga, scrub, and brushy areas.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationCasual to accidential on northwest coast
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.8 Ounces