Yellow-browed Bunting

The yellow-browed bunting is about 15 centimetres long with a wingspan of about 23 centimetres and a weight of 20–24 grams. This shy, strongly streaked bunting has a head pattern that is constant in all plumages: the sides of the crown are dark brown or blackish and contrast with a pale median stripe, and the ear coverts are dark brown or blackish with a clearly visible white spot at the rear. The supercilium is broad and white but bright yellow above the lores. It can be confused with a female rustic bunting. (Italian Wikipedia, general species account)

A typical taiga bird in the breeding season, it nests in central and southern Siberia, arriving around mid-May and leaving in early September for eastern and southern China. It is extremely shy: in danger it flies to a low perch with a characteristic movement of wings and tail, and it calls with a sharp tsic when it takes off. The well-hidden nest, usually 80–120 centimetres up in a small spruce, is made of dry grass stems lined with wool, hair or fine stems and usually holds four greyish eggs. (Italian Wikipedia, general species account)