Somali Bunting

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The Somali Bunting is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

for the Golden-breasted and Somali Buntings in the comment above- it should indeed be spelled Emberiza without the extra "i"... More

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* Somali Bunting, Emberiza poliopleura: Found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. More

Sylvietta isabellina, Somali Bunting Emberiza poliopleura and African White-winged Dove Streptopelia reichenowi. Ethiopian forest endemics are accessible at forest patches such as those at Wondo Genet (central highlands) and Debre Libanos (northern highlands). A number of other highland localities deserve individual mention. North of Addis Ababa, the Jemmu River valley holds a population of highly localized and endemic Harwood's Francolin Francolinus harwoodi, best searched for along the river itself. More

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Emberizidae
Genus : Emberiza
Species : poliopleura
Authority : (Salvadori, 1888)