Little Bunting

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