English: Chestnut Bunting     
Russian: Рыжая овсенка         
Mongolian: Орхимжит хөмрөг 
German: Rotelammer     
French: Bruant roux                       
Japanese: シマノジコ (Shima-nojiko)

Body length: 12 ½ -13 ½ cm.

Breeds in Siberian taiga. Migratory, winters in SE Asia. Very rare autumn vagrant in W Europe, incl. in Norway, Netherlands and Malta. (Some spring records of adult ♂♂ deemed likely to have involved escapes.)

Identification: Small. Rump unmarked red-brown. Underparts light yellow. Bill longish, with pink at base of lower mandible. ♂ unmistakable. ♀/1 winter is rather like Yellow-breasted Bunting, differs in: smaller size, unspotted red-brown rump; more strongly indicated lateral throat stripe; white throat but yellowish undertail-coverts; all-dark tail.