Emberiza pallasi
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
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 |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Wildlife Park | 🇨🇳 China |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Pallas's Bunting sighting in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park on a given day, based on 35 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 60th most-seen of the 122 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Pallas's Bunting in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June–July and September, the lowest months. January–April and October–November have too few records to rate.
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.
Only Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park, in our data
Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Pallas's Bunting sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Emberiza
The closest relatives of the Pallas's Bunting that you can see in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park (genus Emberiza, Old World Buntings) are Godlewski's Bunting (about 50%), Little Bunting (about 10%) and Black-faced 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 Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park (35 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
