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Armenian Name: | Լեռնային դրախտապան |
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See Plate 54 for Rock Bunting and other similar species
Resident Status: | Year-round resident |
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Abundance: | Common |
Length: | 16 cm, Wing Span:21.5-27 cm |
Distribution Map: | Map 308. |
Description: | Male: brown-orange body with black streaks above. Head and neck pale gray with black face and crown stripes, and white supercilium. Female duller with fine black streaks on head and breast. |
Juvenile: | Dull brown with extensive fine streaking; narrow blackish face stripes. |
Similar Species: | Differs from other buntings by bold head stripes, brown-orange rump, and in flight, mostly white outertail feathers. |
Behavior: | Often feeds along edges of roads; perches on rock or bush. |
Habitat: | Arid mountain slopes, open juniper woodland, semidesert. |
Food: | Seeds, invertebrates. |
Nest: | Cup of grass on ground or rarely in shrub. |
Eggs: | 21 mm, 5-6, grayish-white, brown-black lines. |