Species profile
Pine Bunting
Emberiza leucocephalos
Quick answer
Breeding regions are PAL. Breeding subregions are temperate c, e Palearctic forest edge, openings: wc Russia from Ural Mts. e to Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin and Kuril Is. (se Russia), s through nc, ne Kazakhstan, e Kyrgyzstan and nw Xinjiang (nw China), n, c Mongolia and ne China; disjunctly in ne Qinghai and s Gansu (nc China). Non breeding regions are to s temperate c, e Palearctic open areas: to n Iran, n Afghanistan, nw, wc Pakistan, w, c Himalayas; c to ne China, se Russia, Korean Pen. and s Japan.
- Scientific name
- Emberiza leucocephalos
- Family
- Emberizidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Emberiza
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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Related species in Emberizidae
- black-faced bunting (Emberiza spodocephala)
- Black-Headed Bunting (Emberiza melanocephala)
- Brown-rumped Bunting (Emberiza affinis)
- Cabanis's Bunting (Emberiza cabanisi)
- Cape Bunting (Emberiza capensis)
- Chestnut Bunting (Emberiza rutila)
- Chestnut-eared Bunting (Emberiza fucata)
- Cinereous Bunting (Emberiza cineracea)