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Golden-breasted Bunting

Emberiza flaviventris

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernSeedsShrublandCup nestSmall · 18 g
Golden-breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), photo 1
Photo: le0p0ld_d · CC BY 4.0
Golden-breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), photo 2
Photo: le0p0ld_d · CC BY 4.0
Golden-breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), photo 3
Photo: Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY 2.0
Golden-breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), photo 4
Photo: Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0
Golden-breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), photo 5
Photo: Derek Keats · CC BY 2.0
Golden-breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), photo 6
Photo: Derek Keats · CC BY 2.0
Golden-breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), photo 7
Photo: Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY 2.0
Golden-breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), photo 8
Photo: le0p0ld_d · CC BY 4.0
Golden-breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), photo 9
Photo: le0p0ld_d · CC BY 4.0
Golden-breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), photo 10
Photo: le0p0ld_d · CC BY 4.0

What the Golden-breasted Bunting sounds like

Sonogram of the Golden-breasted Bunting: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by paulo kivuyo · Call · kikatiti, Meru, Arusha Region, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The golden-breasted bunting is 15–16 cm long. The adult male has striking head pattern with a white crown, black lateral crown stripes, white supercilium and black-bordered white ear coverts. The underparts are orange-yellow becoming yellow on the throat and whitish on the lower belly. The upperparts are chestnut with a grey rump. The browner wings have two conspicuous white wing bars. The sexes are very similar, but females may have a buff tone to the white head markings and browner head stripes, and the back may have dark streaks. Young birds are duller and paler than the females.

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When to see the Golden-breasted Bunting

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Golden-breasted Bunting

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 25 countries with regular records, and 2 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.

South Africa Namibia Zimbabwe Kenya Uganda Botswana Eswatini Tanzania Zambia Rwanda Mozambique Malawi Nigeria Angola Congo - Kinshasa Lesotho Benin Burkina Faso Niger Ethiopia Cameroon Eritrea Ghana Chad Mali

Recorded as a rare visitor in Burundi, Gambia.

About the Golden-breasted Bunting

The golden-breasted bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It occurs in dry open woodlands and moist savanna in Africa south of the Sahara, but is absent from the equatorial forest belt.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Rustic Bunting (Emberiza rustica) Rustic BuntingEmberiza rusticaThe rustic bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. Cape Bunting (Emberiza capensis) Cape BuntingEmberiza capensisThe Cape bunting is 16 cm long. Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (Emberiza tahapisi) Cinnamon-breasted BuntingEmberiza tahapisiThey weigh between 11.6 and 21 grams with a length of 13–15 centimeters.

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