Ochre-rumped bunting
Species of bird
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The ochre-rumped bunting (Emberiza yessoensis), also known as the Japanese reed bunting, is a bird in the family Emberizidae. It is found in Manchuria, Korea and Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and swamps.[2][3] It is threatened by habitat loss.[2] In South Korea it is classified as an endangered species.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Emberizidae |
| Genus: | Emberiza |
| Species: | E. yessoensis |
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| Emberiza yessoensis (Swinhoe, 1874) | |
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Taxonomy
The bird family Emberizidae contains 44 seed-eating species confined to the Old World. The ochre-rumped bunting was first described as Schoenicola yessoensis by Robert Swinhoe in 1874.[2][4] The species epithet, yessoensis, describes the bird as being found on Yesso (Hokkaido).[4][5] Within its genus, the ochre-rumped bunting is most closely related to the common reed bunting and Pallas's reed bunting, which have sometimes been classified as being in their own genus Schoeniclus.
Subspecies
Two subspecies are recognised- E. y. continentalis, which breeds in eastern Mongolia, northeast China and Ussuriland and winters in east China and E. y. yessoensis which breeds and winters in Japan and also winters in Korea.[6]
Description
It is 15 cm in length. Typically, it is the richest-coloured of the reed buntings, with the pinkest legs and bill in winter. Adult males have a dark back, chestnut upperparts, and are striped black and buff on the breast and sides. They have a brown nape, and the sides of neck are whitish. Females have a buffy submoustachial and throat, black malar stripes, and a dark brown crown with pale streaking. Juveniles have a pale greyish-brown central crown stripe and a yellowish brown rump. The calls of the ochre-rumped bunting can be transcribed as 'sur-swee-ik' and 'tik'.
