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Location: Salé, Morocco

Emberiza striolata

[edit] Identification

14cm long. Chestnut body, and grey head with darker streaking. The female's head has a brown tint to the grey, and more diffused streaking.

[edit] Distribution

North Africa, south west Asia and India.

[edit] Taxonomy

The House Bunting or Striolated Bunting, Emberiza striolata, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

2-4 eggs laid in a nest built in a hole in a wall or building. Incubation is 14 days.

Diet includes insects when feeding young, and otherwise seeds.

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