English:  Rustic Bunting     
Russian: Овсянка-ремез      
Mongolian: Харшанаат хөмрөг, Цагаанхөмсөгт хөмрөг 
German: Waldammer     
French: Bruant rustique                        
Japanese: カシラダカ (Kashiradaka)

Body length: 13-14 ½ cm.

Breeds in swampy spruce or pine forest with birch, willow and other deciduous trees or in dense, waterlogged deciduous forest. Summer visitor, winter in SE Asia; autumn vagrant in Britain. Unobtrusive. On passage, stops off in swampy bushland, easily escapes detection; often singly or in quite small parties on passage, but large flocks occur on costs of Gulf of Bothnia.

Identification: Same size as Reed Bunting. Told by white belly, plain reddish-brown rump, red-brown spots on flanks, pinky-brown legs, longish bill with straight culmen and pink lower mandible.

• ♂ summer: Red-brown band on breast and nape. Black head with white supercilium and small white spot on nape.
  
• ♀ summer: Crown and cheeks spotted brown, supercilium off-white, the red-brown on nape narrow. Some are very like ♂. Autumn: Black and red-brown areas partly concealed by buff-brown fringes; sexing and ageing in field doubtful. Like Little Bunting, often has a dark-edged buff-white spot on rear cheek and distinct pale eyebrow.