English: Grey-necked Bunting
Russian: Скальная овсенка
Mongolian: Хөхлөрийн хөмрөг
German: Steinortolan
French: Bruant a cou gris
Japanese: イワバホオジロ (Iwaba-hojiro)

Body length: 14-15 ½ cm.

Breeds on bare mountain slopes or high plateaux, mostly above 2000 m, with rock outcrops, scant vegetation and scattered low bushes. Has similar habitat requirements to Rock Bunting and southern populations of Ortolan Bunting. Summer visitor (n E Turkey mainly Apr/May-Aug/Sep), winters in India. Quite placid, not shy.

Identification: Like Cretzschmar’s Buntings, but somewhat longer-tailed. Bill long and narrow, all pink (lacks dark culmen). Eye-ring white. Mantle /back invariably discreetly spotted, looks rather uniform brown-grey in fresh plumage. Rump plain brown-grey, or just faintly streaked.

• Adult ♂: Greyish head (dirty grey, sometimes ash-grey); minute off-white throat patch and off-white (longer) submoustachial stripe; cold red-brown (with fine whitish fringes when fresh, looks vermiculated); brownish-white belly and red-brown shoulders.
  
• Adult ♀: Like ♂, but duller and has finely streaked breast and streaked crown. 1st winter: Rump dull brown without rusty tone, mantle /back only moderately spotted. Note narrow, pointed bill and white eye-ring.