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Yellow-throated Bunting
Emberiza elegans · Family Emberizidae
Emberiza elegans
Family Emberizidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 52,813
- Countries and territories with records
- 22
About this species
This species has 52,813 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Korea (61.3%), China (23.3%), Taiwan (5.6%), Japan (4.6%) and Russia (2.8%); together they account for 97.6% of the total. In South Korea, this species accounts for 1.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Emberiza elegans combines the genus name Emberiza with the species epithet elegans. The Warbla app catalog lists 42 species of the genus Emberiza; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Emberiza schoeniclus, Emberiza citrinella and Emberiza calandra.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 42 species of the family Emberizidae. This species ranks 15th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Emberiza schoeniclus. Its record count is 21.4% of the family average (246,475). The family Emberizidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.