Pine Bunting

The pine bunting is a robust bunting 16–17.5 centimetres long, with a thick seed-eater's bill. The male has a white crown and cheeks, a chestnut forehead and throat, and a heavily streaked brown back. The female is much duller and more streaked underneath. Non-breeding plumage is like that of a yellowhammer with all the yellow replaced by white, and song and calls are like the yellowhammer's. Hybrids between the two species show a mixture of characters, including some males with yellow primary fringes. (Wikipedia, general species account)

The pine bunting lives in Eurosiberia east of the Urals and breeds across much of temperate Asia, migrating south to central Asia, north India and southern China in winter. It is common in all sorts of open land with some scrub or trees, including cultivation, but prefers open forest, usually pines, more than the closely related yellowhammer. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe, though it often winters in northeast Italy and Tuscany. (Wikipedia, general species account)