English: Pallas’ Reed Bunting    
Russian: Полярная овсянка       
Mongolian: Цагаанхэвэлт хөмрөг
German: Pallasammer     
French: Bruant de Pallas                       
Japanese: シベリアジュリン (Shiberia-jurin)

Body length: 12-15 cm
Wing span: 20-23 cm

Breeding visitor
Breeding season: May-August 

Egg number: 4-5
Egg colour: Glossy pale purplish with dark or dark-purple scrawls, blotches. 
Brood:  1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern

Food: Terrestrial and aquatic arthropods, their larvae and plant seeds.

Habitat: Nests on the ground or at the base of tall reeds, Achnatherum splendens grasses, low bushes such as Caragana spp., bushes in dry open steppe, reeds and overgrown thickets along riverbank sand lakes, tall grasses in dry mountain valleys and mountain slopes with high cover in forest steppe, mountain steppe, and desert steppe.