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RockyCavity nestTiny · 15 g
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It is 14 cm long, similar in size to the house bunting and smaller than the similarly plumaged rock bunting. The breeding male has a chestnut body, and grey head with darker streaking and a white supercilium and moustachial streak. The female's head has a brown tint to the grey, and more diffused streaking. The striolated bunting has stronger facial striping and a paler belly than the north African house bunting, which used to be considered conspecific as the subspecies E. striolata sahari. Birds in eastern Chad (E.
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When to see the Striolated Bunting
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Striolated Bunting
The map shades 19 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Qatar.
About the Striolated Bunting
The striolated bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
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Easily confused with
Yellow-browed BuntingEmberiza chrysophrysThe yellow-browed bunting is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern taxonomists from the finches (Fringillidae).
Grey-necked BuntingEmberiza buchananiThis bunting has a long pink bill and is greyish above.
Tristram's BuntingEmberiza tristramiTristram's bunting is a bird in the family Emberizidae.
Side by side: Grey-necked Bunting vs Striolated Bunting
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