Yellow-browed Bunting

Emberiza chrysophrys Pallas, 1776

≈14 cmLength18 gWeight

It is a bunting with a yellow supercilium, the male in the breeding season having a black head, bright yellow supercilium and white crown stripe.

Busiest months: April · Most records: China, South Korea, Japan

Looks like Little Bunting

Least Concern

How to identify

Field marks

Male in the breeding season has a black head and bright yellow supercilium
White stripe along the center of the crown
Upperparts brown with bold, heavy stripes
Underparts white; flanks tinged orange with fine lines

Male, female and young

Females and juveniles have a weaker head pattern, with brown replacing the male’s black.

Similar species

Little Bunting

Females and juveniles can be confused with Little Bunting; Yellow-browed Bunting always has some yellow in the supercilium and at least a faint white crown stripe.

Where and when it's recorded

Yellow-browed Bunting has been recorded at 443 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 9 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Matsu – Dongyin Vegetable FarmChina469 records
Eocheong-do (island)South Korea345 records
Matsu – DongyinChina289 records

More places

Taipei – Tianliaoyang WetlandTaiwan (China)264 records
Jinshan – Jinshan Youth Activity CenterTaiwan (China)228 records
Oeyeon-do (island)South Korea224 records
Beihu MarshlandChina222 records
Baengnyeong-do (island)South Korea193 records
Matsu – Dongyin Shizi Vegetable FarmChina191 records
Po ToiHong Kong (China)145 records

Countries and regions with the most records

China South Korea Japan Russia Mongolia Philippines United Kingdom Kazakhstan

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 yellow-browed bunting (Schoeniclus chrysophrys) is a passerine bird in the family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern taxonomists from the finches in the family Fringillidae.

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Questions

How big is the Yellow-browed Bunting?

The Yellow-browed Bunting is about ≈14 cm long and weighs around 18 g.

Where does the Yellow-browed Bunting live?

Its breeding range: Palearctic: temperate eastern Palearctic taiga: Irkutsk Oblast and Sakha Republic (south-central, east-central Russia). It is most often recorded in China, South Korea and Japan.