Yellow-throated Bunting

The Yellow-throated bunting is a medium-sized bunting, 15–16 centimetres long, and lives up to its name: the male is unmistakable in a handsome combination of black, white and bright yellow. He has black on the crown, which can be raised into a crest, on the chin and in a mask over the eye, and the rest of the head is yellow, the underside white with a few chestnut streaks and the upperside streaked brown. The tail is brown-black with white outer feathers. The female is less contrasting and never has a black chin. The song is a long, fairly monotonous twittering series, and the sharp tzik call is like the rustic bunting's. (Swedish Wikipedia, general species account)

It both breeds and winters in East Asia. It breeds in dry broadleaf or mixed woodland, in thickets, scrub and forest edges, often near rapids and streams. The female lays four to six eggs and incubates them alone for 12–14 days in a nest placed on the ground under a bush. In the breeding season it feeds mostly on invertebrates but also on seeds. Records in Europe, including Sweden, are not considered certain to be wild birds. (Swedish Wikipedia, general species account)