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Location: South Korea

Emberiza chrysophrys

[edit] Identification

14cm. Brown upper parts heavily streaked, white underparts with an orange hue on the flanks and some fine dark streaks. Pink stout beak. Breeding male - black head, white crown and moustachial stripes and throat, bright yellow eyebrow stripe. Females and young birds have a weaker head pattern, brown, some yellow in the eyebrow, white stripe on the crown.

[edit] Distribution

Eastern Siberia, wintering in central and southern China.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Taiga.

[edit] Behaviour

It nests in trees and 4 eggs are laid.

The diet includes seeds, but insects are fed to nestlings.

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