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It is a fairly small bunting, 14 to 15 cm in length. The tail is fairly short with little or no white on the outer feathers. Breeding males have bright chestnut-brown upperparts and head. The breast and belly are yellow with streaks on the sides. Non-breeding males are similar but duller with the chestnut partly hidden by pale fringes to the feathers. The female is mostly dull brown with dark streaks above while the underparts are mainly pale yellow. The rump is dull chestnut and the throat is buff. The variable, high-pitched song is given from a perch low in a tree.
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When to see the Chestnut Bunting
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 4 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Chestnut Bunting
The map shades 15 countries with regular records, and 7 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United Kingdom, Norway, France, Israel, North Korea, Finland, Nepal.
About the Chestnut Bunting
The chestnut bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae found in the East Palearctic.
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Easily confused with
Pine BuntingEmberiza leucocephalosThe pine bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group most modern authors now separate from the finches, Fringillidae.
Godlewski's BuntingEmberiza godlewskiiThe adult's head, neck, and breast are grey over-all with a brown or black eye stripe, "mustache", and crown.
White-capped BuntingEmberiza stewartiThe white-capped bunting or chestnut-breasted bunting is a species of bird in the family Emberizidae.
Side by side: Chestnut Bunting vs Godlewski's Bunting
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