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Photo by fakharabbas

Photo by Alastair Rae
Uzbekistan, May 2007

Alternative name: Chestnut-breasted Bunting

Emberiza stewarti

[edit] Identification

15cm

• Rufous upperparts
• Grey underparts
• Whitish-grey head
• Black eye stripe
• Black throat extending to sides of head
• White upperbreast
• Broad chestnut breast band
• Brownish wings
• Long tail

[edit] Distribution

Asia: found in southern Turkestan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, northern Afghanistan, China, Tibet, northern Pakistan, and north-western India and Western Himalayas.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Boreal shrubland and forests, temperate grassland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Avianweb

• List of references

[edit] External Links