The Tibetan Bunting is recorded in the highlands of eastern Tibet. Adult males and females differ in breeding-plumage color and facial pattern.
In breeding plumage, an adult male has a black head and broad white eyebrow. A black breast band separates the white throat from the grey belly, and the mantle is chestnut.
At a site around 4,000 m in Qinghai, observers found a domed nest of dead grass tucked into a low thorny shrub.
At that nest, both parents brought food to the chicks. Observers identified caterpillars, flies, grasshoppers, and other small invertebrates among the items.
A breeding adult female has a whitish eyebrow and pale buff throat. Fine dark streaks mark the breast, and chestnut can show among the brownish-grey mantle feathers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.