Chestnut Bunting
Emberiza rutilaPallas, PS, 1776
English (US) Chestnut Bunting
The Chestnut Bunting (Emberiza rutila) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Emberizidae (Old World Buntings) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds south-central Russia and north-central Mongolia eastward to southern Sea of Okhotsk and Ussuriland and northeastern China; winters from Nagaland and Mizoram (northeastern India) eastward through southern China and southward to central IndochinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Emberiza rutila
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Chestnut Bunting
- Described by
- Pallas, PS, 1776
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Pallas, PS, 1776
- Type locality
- Onon River and toward the Mongolian border.
- Original description
- Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs 3 p.698
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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