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Pallas's Bunting

Emberiza pallasiOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Sparrows (Emberizidae)

Pallas's Bunting Breeding Male Portrait
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General

Pallas's Bunting: Medium-sized bunting with gray-brown upperparts with black streaks. Lower breast, belly, and undertail coverts are white. Head, throat and upper breast are black. Collar and moustache stripe are white. Tail is black with white outer feathers and corners. Female lacks black.

Range and Habitat

Pallas's Bunting: Native of Asia; recorded on St. Lawrence Island and the western mainland of Alaska. Frequents reed beds in wetlands, lakes, and along streams in taiga and tundra; winters in grasslands and marshlands.

Voice Text

"cheep", "tsee-see"

Interesting Facts

 The Pallas's Bunting is named after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas.

 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 pallasi
Length5.5 Inches
Wingspan9 Inches

Pallas's Bunting

Pallas's Bunting: Medium bunting, gray-brown upperparts with black streaks. Lower breast, belly, and undertail coverts are white. Head, throat and upper breast are black. Collar and moustache stripe are white. Tail is black with white outer feathers and corners. Black bill, legs, feet.

● Song: "cheep", "tsee-see"

● Foraging & Feeding: Pallas's Bunting: Eats mainly seeds, especially in winter, but also takes insects; forages on the ground or low in shrubs.

● Breeding & nesting: Pallas's Bunting: Four or five pink eggs with dark spots are laid in a cup nest made of grass and moss, and lined with finer materials. Incubation ranges from 12 to 14 days and is carried out mostly by the female.

● Similar species: Pallas's Bunting: Reed Bunting is larger and has heavier bill, rufous-brown upperparts with black streaks, and rufous-brown wing coverts in winter plumage.

Flight Pattern

Short flights close to vegetation, with rapid wing beats alternating with brief periods of wings pulled to sides.
Pallas's Bunting Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Pallas's Bunting: Native of Asia; recorded on St. Lawrence Island and the western mainland of Alaska. Frequents reed beds in wetlands, lakes, and along streams in taiga and tundra; winters in grasslands and marshlands.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationAccidental in North America
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.4 Ounces