English: Red-headed Bunting     
Russian: Желчная овсенка        
Mongolian: Хүрэнтолгойт хөмрөг 
German: Braukopfammer      
French: Bruant a tete rousse                         
Japanese: チャキンチョウ (Chakincho)

Body length: 15-16 ½ cm.

Very closely related to Black-headed Bunting, and hybridizes with latter where the two meet (SE Caspian Sea). Breeds on steppe (cultivated or not) with some bushes or scattered trees, in semi-desert, on open mountain slopes or high-lying plains. Summer visitor (by Volga mostly early Jun-early Aug), winters in India. Not that shy. Rare records in W Europe, but all these are generally regarded as involving escaped cagebirds; a few, however, probably refer to genuine vagrants.

Identification: Fairly big and rather long-tailed. No white on tail. ♂: Unmistakable. Besides red-brown mask, note yellowish rump and yellow-green, streaked mantle.

• ♀: Rather nondescript and hard to identify. Note: long, heavy, light grey bill; narrow buff-white eye-ring; dull light brown mantle /back and head/ nape with only modest, fine streaking on mantle and forecrown; usually lightly streaked yellow-green or yellowish rump; wholly unstreaked dirty yellowish-white underparts and bright yellow undertail-coverts.
  
• 1st winter: Like ♀, but has buffish-white breast (sometimes with fine streaks), more heavily streaked grey-brown mantle /back and rump without yellow-green tone. Very like Black-headed Bunting, and often inseparable from that species.