Rustic Bunting

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