Yellowhammer
A species of Old World Buntings Scientific name : Emberiza citrinella Genus : Old World Buntings
Yellowhammer, A species of Old World Buntings
Botanical name: Emberiza citrinella
Genus: Old World Buntings
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Description
The yellowhammer is a small songbird that is often seen in open areas like forest clearings and farmland where it searches for seeds on the ground. The bright yellow head and stomach identify the males from the females. The bird typically travels in flocks instead of solitary. A decline in their population has placed the bird on the UK’s red species list.
Size
17 cm
Life Expectancy
12 years
Feeding Habits
Yellowhammer typically forages on the ground, primarily consuming seeds, favoring starchy varieties. Its diet includes seeds from nettle, docks, knotgrass, fat hen, chickweed, yarrow, and grasses, especially cereal grains like wheat and oats in colder months.
Habitat
Yellowhammer is traditionally associated with open and dry habitats, including open woodlands, scrub, heathland, cultivations, and riparian forests, with an affinity for areas that offer a variety of vegetation and some trees. This species thrives in environments shaped by traditional agriculture, which provides ideal conditions such as hedges and clumped trees. It prefers to avoid dense forests, urban settings, and wetlands. Yellowhammer is most abundant at altitudes ranging from 600 to 900 meters but can be found up to 2000 meters in montane zones, adapting to cereal cultivation areas and steppe oakwoods. During winter, yellowhammer typically inhabits agricultural land, such as stubble fields, pastures, and field margins rich in weed seeds, also utilizing orchards, forest edges, and wastelands for roosting.
Dite type
Granivorous
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Distribution Area
The yellowhammer breeds across the Palearctic between the 16–20 °C July isotherms. It is the commonest and most widespread European bunting, although it is absent from high mountains, Arctic regions, the western Netherlands, most of Iberia and Greece, and low-lying regions of other countries adjoining the Mediterranean Sea. It breeds in Russia east to Irkutsk, and in most of Ukraine. The Asian range extends into northwest Turkey, the Caucasus, and northern Kazakhstan. 
Species Status
Not globally threatened.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Perching birds Family
New world sparrows Genus
Old World Buntings Species
Yellowhammer 
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