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Little Bunting

Emberiza pusillaOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Little Bunting Breeding Male Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: Cone
  • Eye Color: Brown to brown-black.
  • Head Pattern: Eyeline, Striped, Eyering (complete or broken), Malar or malar stripe
  • Crown Color: Orange-brown and black striped.
  • Forehead Color: Orange-brown and black striped.
  • Nape Color: Orange-brown
  • Throat Color: Orange-brown
  • Cere color: No Data
Little Bunting Breeding Male Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 13-14 cm (5-5.5 in)
  • Weight: 14 g (0.5 oz)
  • Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
  • Color: Blue, Brown, Yellow
  • Underparts: White with heavy brown streaking.
  • Upperparts: Gray-brown with black streaking.
  • Back Pattern: Striped or streaked
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Striped or streaked
Little Bunting Breeding Male Flight Illustration

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Swift bouncy flight on rapidly beating wings alternating with brief periods of wings pulled to body.
  • Wingspan Range: 20-22 cm (8-8.5 in)
  • Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Pointed Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Solid
  • Upper Tail: Black with white outer feathers.
  • Under Tail: Black with white outer feathers.
  • Leg Color: Pink
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Family Buntings, Finches, Sparrows (Emberizidae)_blue
Species Emberiza pusilla
Length5 - 5.5 Inches
Wingspan8.25 Inches

Little Bunting

Little Bunting: Small finch with dark-streaked gray-brown upperparts, heavily streaked white underparts. Face and crown are chestnut-brown and black-bordered. Eye-ring is dull white; throat is white. Wings have two pale, thin bars. Legs, feet are yellow. Tail has white outer feathers.

● Song: "tee-tee-tee-teerec", "tsick"

● Foraging & Feeding: Little Bunting: Eats mainly seeds and insects; forages primarily on the ground but also gleans foliage.

● Breeding & nesting: Little Bunting: Four to six glossy, pale green, gray, olive, or pink eggs, marked with black, brown, and lilac, are laid in a nest made of dried leaves and grass, lined with fine grass and moss, and built in a ground depression hidden by dense vegetation. Incubation ranges from 11 to 12 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Little Bunting: Rustic Bunting is larger, lacks eye-rings, and has a heavier bill with pink lower mandible.

Flight Pattern

Swift bouncy flight on rapidly beating wings alternating with brief periods of wings pulled to body.
Little Bunting Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Little Bunting: Reported from St. Lawrence Island and the western Aleutians, northwestern Alaska, and California. Preferred habitats include mountain forests.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationAccidental to casual
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.5 Ounces