Cinereous Bunting

Cinereous Bunting
Adult male
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Emberizidae
Genus:	Emberiza
Species:	E. cineracea
Binomial name
Emberiza cineracea Brehm, 1855

The Cinereous Bunting, Emberiza cineracea, is a bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a passerine family now separated by most modern authors from the finches Fringillidae. This species was discovered by Hugh Edwin Strickland.

Range

It breeds in southern Turkey and southern Iran, and winters around the Red Sea in northeast Africa and Yemen. A few isolated populations just about maintain a foothold within European borders, on islands in the Aegean Sea.

Habitat

Cinereous Bunting breeds on dry stony mountain slopes.

Description

Cinereous Bunting is a large (16–17 cm), slim bunting with a long, white-cornered tail. The term cinereous describes its colouration. It is less streaked than many buntings and has a thick pale bill. It has a greyish back with only subdued dark markings, and a browner tint to the wings.

The adult male's head is dull yellow, with a brighter moustachial line and throat. In the nominate race of southwest Turkey, the rest of the underparts are grey, but the eastern form E. c. semenowi has yellow underparts.

Females are brownish grey above with a whitish throat and yellow only in the moustachial stripe. Young birds have a plain pale belly and streaking on the breast.

Foraging and Breeding

Cinereous Bunting feeds principally on seeds, like other buntings. It takes insects especially when feeding young. Its normal clutch is three eggs.

Song

The call is a harsh tschrip, and the song is a hoarse zru- zru-zru-zru.

References

• BirdLife International (2004). Emberiza cineracea. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened
• Buntings and Sparrows by Byers, Olsson and Curson, ISBN 1-873403-19-4

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