Godlewski's Bunting
Emberiza godlewskii
灰眉岩鹀
Description
This medium-sized bunting displays a distinctive grey head, neck, and breast, accentuated by a brown or black eye stripe, mustache marking, and crown. The upperparts feature a mottled orange and black pattern on the back, while the underparts and rump show an orange to buff wash. The tail is black and orange above with white underparts, distinctive for its notched tip. The conical beak resembles that of a sparrow, being black on the upper mandible and pale below. The legs and feet are light pink in coloration. The combination of grey head patterning and orange-tinged underparts provides good identification cues in its natural habitat.
Distribution & Habitat
This species occupies a broad range across Central and East Asia, being found in China, Pakistan, India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Russia. Its preferred habitat consists of temperate shrubland environments, where it inhabits the shrubby and brushy areas typical of this biome. The species appears to be adapted to the rocky, scrub-covered slopes and montane shrubland found throughout its extensive geographic range.
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Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae
- Genus
- Emberiza
- eBird Code
- godbun1
Subspecies (5)
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Emberiza godlewskii decolorata
western China (foothills of western Tarim Basin in Xinjiang)
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Emberiza godlewskii godlewskii
Mongolia to northwestern China
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Emberiza godlewskii khamensis
Tibet to western Sichuan and southern Qinghai
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Emberiza godlewskii omissa
southern Mongolia to Hubei, Shaanxi, and northwestern Sichuan
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Emberiza godlewskii yunnanensis
southeastern Tibet to northern Myanmar, northern Yunnan, northeastern Sichuan, and western Hubei
Data Sources
CBR Notes: 中文名由戈氏岩鹀恢复为灰眉岩鹀
Species description from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.