Yellow bunting
Description
The yellow bunting reaches a body length of 16 to 17 cm and weighs 25 to 30 grams. During the breeding season, the males wear a yellow nuptial dress with a bright yellow head with a few brownish stripes, a yellow underpart with a reddish breast and brownish-grey wing coverts. The upperparts are brown with darker longitudinal stripes, the rump is cinnamon brown. The tail is dark, in flight the white outer edge is noticeable. Females are more inconspicuous greenish brown, but still with yellow tendencies on the throat and underparts. In plain dress, the males resemble the females.
The yellow bunting can be distinguished from the similar-looking cirl bunting by its cinnamon-brown rump.
Habitat
Yellow buntings live in open cultivated landscape with copses, hedges and bushes. In winter, they move around in large mixed troops and search for remaining seeds in fields.
The text is a translation of an excerpt from Wikipedia (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldammer). On wikipedia the text is available under a „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“ licence. Status: 22 November 2021
