Emberiza pusilla Pallas, 1776

Le, Hung Manh, Ho, Thang, Le, Trung Nguyen Thoi, Nguyen, Hoa Ngoc & Nguyen, Thach Dang, 2024, New records of birds from Central Vietnam, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 133721-e 133721 : e133721-

Emberiza pusilla Pallas, 1776

Emberiza pusilla Pallas, 1776

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceID: E892B0E6-DD9F-5693-8E30-79A648BDF54F; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Aves; order: Passeriformes ; family: Emberizidae ; genus: Emberiza ; Location: country: Vietnam; stateProvince: Nghe An; locality: Con Cuong ; verbatimElevation: 600 m; verbatimLatitude: 19 ° 17.024 ’ N; verbatimLongitude: 104 ° 10.492 ’ E

Conservation status

Least Concern

Distribution

Little Bunting has been recorded as a fairly common to common winter visitor in West and East Tonkin ( Robson 2008, Craik and Minh 2018, Hung et al. 2021 b). This is the first confirmed record for the species in North Annam. Elsewhere, this species has been recorded breeding in Norway, Russian and Sweden, resident in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, North Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, non-breeding in Iran, Saudi Arabia and vagrant in Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States ( IUCN 2024).

Diagnosis

Size: 12-14 cm. Adult non-breeding: Small with finely dark-streaked breast and flanks and rather uniform base colour of upperside. Bold broad blackish (streaky) lateral crown-stripes, eye-stripe and border to rufous-chestnut ear-coverts. Median crown- stripes, supercillium, submoustachial stripe and spot on rear ear-coverts contrastingly buffish, shows rufescent lores and forehead, whitish eye-ring (Fig. 5 ). Adult breeding: Attains diagnostic chestnut flush over most of head, lateral crown-stripes solid black. Juvenile: Similar to adult non-breeding. Initially shows much duller lateral crown-stripes, less neat breast and flanks streaking, brower-tinged underparts.

Figures

Figure 5. The adult non-breeding of Emberiza pusilla (IEBR B. 536) was photographed in Con Cuong, Nghe An Province.