Black-throated Accentor

How to identify

Field marks

1. Adult has black crown, face patch and throat
2. White supercilium
3. Breast orange, belly white with orange streaks
4. Back dark brown with streaks

Male, female and young

Sexes similar; birds in winter and juveniles are less contrasting, and juveniles may have almost no black on the throat.

Voice

A thin “ti-ti-ti”.

Similar species

House Sparrow

The dark brown, streaked back is somewhat like that of House Sparrow, but adult Black-throated Accentor has a black crown, black face patch, black throat, white supercilium and orange breast.

Where and when it's recorded

Black-throated Accentor has been recorded at 59 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 11 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Ile Alatau NP – Big Almaty LakeKazakhstan154 records
2. Khovd Bird Ringing Station, Khovd, MNMongolia95 records
3. Ile-Alatau NP – Tien-Shan Astronomical ObservatoryKazakhstan89 records

Countries and regions with the most records

KazakhstanIndiaKyrgyzstanMongoliaPakistanChinaUzbekistanTajikistan

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The black-throated accentor (Prunella atrogularis) is a small passerine bird found in the Ural, Tian Shan and Altai Mountains. It is migratory, wintering in Afghanistan and neighboring countries. It is a rare vagrant in western Europe.

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