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Location: Suburb of Seoul, Korea

Emberiza rustica

[edit] Identification

Reddish brown flanks, white underparts, pink legs and a pink lower mandible. The summer male has a black head with a white throat and supercilium and a reddish breast band. The female has a heavily streaked brown back and brown face with a whitish supercilium, reddish flank streaks, chestnut nape and pink lower mandible.

[edit] Distribution

Northern Europe and Asia. It is migratory, wintering in south east Asia, Japan, and eastern China.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Thickets and woodland.

[edit] Behaviour

4-6 eggs are laid in a nest built in a bush or on the ground.

Its diet includes insects when feeding young, and otherwise seeds.

[edit] Bird Song

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