NOT EVERYTHING BUT PRETTY MUCH ABOUT THE YELLOW BREASTED BUNTINGS
The yellow-breasted bunting is an Eurasian passerine bird in the bunting family. The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific aureola is Latin for "golden". The birds presents in the home is thought to be linked to "happiness". Until 2004, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature considered the yellow-breasted bunting to be a species of least concern. In 2004, its status was changed to near threatened, and four years later it was uplisted again — to vulnerable — after new research has shown it to be rarer than had been believed. It is subject to heavy hunting pressure in China, through which most specimens pass during migration. In 2013, its assessment changed to endangered, and continues to decline.
CONTENTS FEMALE+MALE DISTRIBUTION & HABITATS BREEDING THREATS FUN FACTS
This bird is similar in size to a reed bunting, but longer-billed. The breeding male has bright yellow underparts with black flank streaks, brown upperparts, black face and throat bar, and a pink lower mandible. The female has a heavily streaked grey-brown back, and less intensely yellow underparts. She has a whitish face with dark crown, eye and cheek stripes. The juvenile is similar, but the background colour of the underparts and face is buff.
Distribution and habitat It breeds in north-eastern Europe and across northern Asia. It is migratory, wintering in south-east Asia, India, and southern China. It is a rare but regular wanderer to western Europe. There are also ~4 records from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and a 2017 record from Labrador, Canada.
Breeding The yellow-breasted bunting breeds in open scrubby areas that consist of dry water rice fields for foraging and reedbeds for roosting, often near water, and is present in Siberia. It lays four to six eggs in a nest on the ground. Its food consists of insects when feeding young, and otherwise seeds. Threats The birds habitat is disturbed, then caught in mist-nets. They are then cooked and sold as "sparrows" or "rice birds". Even though the actions have been restricted to a small area in southern China, it has became more widespread and popular to increasing wealth, and hunters now travel long distances to find sufficient birds. The irrigation of rice production shift has reduced the quality and quantity of wintering habitats, including the loss of water stubble.
Fun Facts This kind of flower was named after “He Que Hua”(禾雀花), very similar to the Chinese naem of the yellow breasted buntings. Chinese legend says, one day a farmer saw a group of sparrows flew in the farmland for rice. The farmer swiped the broom to make them leave, but it was not working. The old farmer cried as he watched the sparrows destroyed his harvest. The wizard Tieguai Li, saw the whole thing and stood up for the farmer, he haxed the sparrows and rolled them on the tree, just like the exemplar of the Mucuna birdwoodiana, so that the sparrows would never disturb the farmland again. Its flower language is joy and happiness.
Emberiza rutila The chestnut buntingis a passerine bird of eastern Asia which belongs to the same bunting family as the yellow breated buntings. Due to the sharp decline of the YBB, some sellers in Guangzhou used the chestnut buntings as a counterfeit.
歸自謠 - 禾雀花 Whispher to myself Mucuna birdwoodiana 飛雪盛， 幕低垂霜滿嶺，醉眠冷臥愁未醒。 Floating much of snowy flakes, silvery over the mountain range, drowned in the dormacy of worry and wine. 春風一夜花弄影，人初靜，喜聞禾雀
喃請。
The wind of spring danced with flowers through the night, people were static, may the birds please whispear to me.