Japanese Yellow Bunting

Japanese Yellow BuntingThis summer visitor breeds only in Japan, using moist woodland edges and scrub. A male's yellow-green head and the white eye ring of both sexes help identify it.How do its plumage and eye ring vary?In breeding season, the male has a grayish yellow-green head and a dark area before the eye; both sexes have a white eye ring. Females are browner overall, and nonbreeding males become duller.What does it eat, and where does it breed?This summer visitor breeds only in Japan, using moist woodland edges and scrub. A male's yellow-green head and the white eye ring of both sexes help identify it.It breeds along moist woodland edges and in scrub in Japan's lower mountains. It eats grass seeds and catches insects during breeding, including insects fed to its young.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.