Emberiza pallasi
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Pallas's reed bunting (Emberiza pallasi), also known as Pallas's bunting, is a passerine bird in the Old World bunting family, Emberizidae. The bird family Emberizidae contains around 300 seed-eating species, most of which are found in the Americas. The genus Emberiza, with more than 40 members, is confined to the Old World. Within the genus Emberiza, Pallas's reed bunting is most closely related to the Japanese reed bunting and the reed bunting, sometimes classified in their own genus Schoeniclus.
The genus name Emberiza comes from the Old German word Embritz, meaning "bunting". The English name and the specific pallasii commemorate German naturalist and explorer Peter Simon Pallas. It breeds across northern and central Asia to Mongolia. It is a migrant species, wintering in southeast Asia. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe, but has occurred as far west as Great Britain. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park | 🇲🇳 Mongolia |
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| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Wildlife Park | 🇨🇳 China |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Pallas's Bunting sighting in Beijing on a given day, based on 549 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 73rd most-seen of the 324 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October to April
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Pallas's Bunting in Beijing on a given day, against under 5% in May to September, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pallas's Bunting sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 10 cities where we can rate Pallas's Bunting sightings, Beijing ranks 2nd at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Lanzhou (China, about 10%).
Same genus: Emberiza
The closest relatives of the Pallas's Bunting that you can see in Beijing (genus Emberiza, Old World Buntings) are Little Bunting (about 20%), Yellow-throated Bunting (about 10%) and Yellow-breasted Bunting (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pallas's Bunting is recorded against all the birds logged in Beijing (549 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
