Yellow-breasted Bunting? (3 Viewers)

[Orioluskundoo]

Here's a flock of passerines from Haleji lake, Sindh province, Pakistan.
Dated September 2018.

Rufous back, Yellow breasts and double white wing bars only points to this species. This is the only photo available.

 

[igorfest]

Here's a flock of passerines from Haleji lake, Sindh province, Pakistan.
Dated September 2018.

Rufous back, Yellow breasts and double white wing bars only points to this species. This is the only photo available.

Very big bill, yellowish vent and rump (visible in at least a few individuals) and white + yellowish tinged wing bars = White-winged Grosbeak (Mycerobas carnipes)

Ciao, Igor

 

[Orioluskundoo]

Very big bill, yellowish vent and rump (visible in at least a few individuals) and white + yellowish tinged wing bars = White-winged Grosbeak (Mycerobas carnipes)

Ciao, Igor

Thanks Igor, few queries,
Would the habitat makes sense? This was down in the Southern wetlands/ plains of Pakistan, at least 500KM (displacement) from the nearest suitable habitat/ distribution? The species is not known to be long distance migrant from what I gather. No prior records exist here and that too in such a flock. Eruption? I aware the photo is really not the most helpful but does the extant of yellow on the wings match a White-Winged Grosbeak?

 

[DMW]

Chaffinches again...

 

[Orioluskundoo]

Chaffinches again...

That is what I thought to after that post, both photos made me think of YBB. Would chaffinches have this much yellow? or do you think it may be the saturation levels of the photograph?

 

[DMW]

That is what I thought to after that post, both photos made me think of YBB. Would chaffinches have this much yellow? or do you think it may be the saturation levels of the photograph?

Yes, it looks like the sun was low when this photo was taken and I think light and maybe saturation is giving a yellow cast.

 

[Orioluskundoo]

Ah, that does make sense. Thank you for sharing that, a good record for a region which hardly gets a chaffinch once every decade still!

 

[DMW]

Ah, that does make sense. Thank you for sharing that, a good record for a region which hardly gets a chaffinch once every decade still!

This has me wondering whether Yellow-throated Petronia can be excluded?

 

[Orioluskundoo]

Hmm, Wouldn't the bill be finer and longer-bodied jizz in general? at least from my experience.

 

[Brian J Small]

I suspect these are actually House Sparrows. Nothing visible in the photo contradicts this and if you lighten it as much as you can one or two males show the head pattern

 

[Butty]

White-winged Grosbeak

Wing-pattern is quite wrong. And it's a resident mountain species, hugely out of range.

Chaffinches

Median-covert patch/wing-bar of the OP's birds seems too small, and the primary-covert bar is missing (I think this would show on some of the birds below left of centre). Also, apparently, well out of range.
So, I also...

suspect these are actually House Sparrows

 

[Orioluskundoo]

Thank you again, this makes sense. The editing just made it too odd.
Much appreciated.