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Pine bunting

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Some doubt has been cast upon male birds which appear to be pure pine buntings, but show yellow primary fringes. Previously, in Britain, these were regarded as potentially hybrid birds, and not accepted by the
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south to central Asia, north India and southern China in winter. It is common in all sorts of open land with some scrub or trees, including cultivation, but has a greater preference for open forest (usually
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is like that of a yellowhammer, but with all the yellow replaced by white. Its song and calls are like those of the yellowhammer.
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The pine bunting's natural food consists of seeds, and when feeding its young, insects. The nest is on the ground. Four to six
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Lansdown, Peter and Trevor D. Charlton (1990) 'The Sizewell Bunting': a hybrid Pine Bunting × Yellowhammer in Suffolk
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the throat must be extensively chestnut coloured, without a dark malar line or pale submoustachial line
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Hybrids between pine bunting and yellowhammer show a mixture of characters. One such bird, a
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in 1982, the "Sizewell bunting", is documented and illustrated with photographs in
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there should be no yellow on the head, or anywhere else except the primary fringes
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are laid, which show the hair-like markings characteristic of buntings.
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family Emberizidae, a group most modern authors now separate from the
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The pine bunting is a robust 16–17.5-centimetre bird, with a thick
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the supercilium should be chestnut or grey, but not white
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Six photographs (see pulldown menu at page bottom).
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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Emberizidae
Emberiza
Binomial name
Gmelin, SG
passerine
bird
bunting
finches
Urals
Old German
Ancient Greek
seed
bill
plumage
temperate Asia
migrating
pines
yellowhammer
Tuscany

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