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 LC    Grey Bunting* Id (Atlas):
    Emberiza variabilis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Grey Bunting, Gray Bunting, Japanese Grey Bunting, Japanese Gray Bunting

Family
Emberizidae (Old World Buntings)

Size
15.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Temminck, 1835

Habitat
Temperate and boreal forest.

Range (Guide)
China (mainland), Japan, Russia (Asian), South Korea, USA.

Breeds eastern Russia (southern Kamchatka), Kuril Is, Sakhalin I and Japan (Hokkaido south to central Honshu). Winters mainly in southern half of Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and Ryukyu Is (south to Okinawa).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

 
Grey Bunting (Emberiza variabilis) [XC489517]
     by Malte Seehausen from Ust-Bolsheretsky District, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation (song)

 
Grey Bunting (Emberiza variabilis) [XC489515]
     by Malte Seehausen from Ust-Bolsheretsky District, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation (song)

Subspecies
Sometimes placed in a separate genus, Ocyris. Recent phylogenetic study suggests that this species may be sister to Tristram's Bunting (Emberiza tristrami) and Yellow-browed Bunting (Emberiza chrysophrys). Birds from Kamchatka sometimes separated as subspecies musica.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • variabilis Temminck, 1836   -  Southern Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Kuril Is. and northern Japan; > to Ryukyu Is.
  • musica (Kittlitz, 1858)   -  Central Kamchatka Pen.



References
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Files:
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