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Bunting ID please

Please kindly advise.
LV on 3Nov2010
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Looks like Black-faced Bunting to me.

HF Cheung

I'd say "First winter Yellow-breasted Bunting" - it looks a bit warmer in tone than Black-faced, to me.

John

bunting i/d

what the photo shows indeed is a yellow-breasted  bunting after exam the photos on OBI.

The crown is darkish-streaked it is not a female 1st winter but a 1st winter male.

S L Tai

Thanks those who replied.  Let me attach one more photo to see if it gives better clues.  What puzzles me is that it is overall, and in particular the head, darker in color than yellow-breasted bunting that I know.  It could be a yellow-breasted bunting as it was eating crops together with munias.

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Adult female YB Buntings show a thinner "ear-ring" - perhaps that's why it looks lighter and brighter than the juveniles, which tend to show an accentuated ear-ring like this one...^^"

It's a female Yellow-breasted Bunting. (I don't think there is enough white in the wing, chestnut on the rump or yellow below for a male)
Adults and first-winter birds are very difficult to separate in this species, even in the hand. I'm not sure if you can tell which this is from these photos.

Thanks John for clarifying! 3551smile445