Yellow-breasted Bunting Hatchling
Emberiza aureola (hatchling)
A newly hatched yellow-breasted bunting is a tiny, downy nestling hidden in a grass-lined cup nest among reeds, wet meadows, or low shrubs. It cannot fly and depends entirely on adults for warmth and food, begging with open gape and soft calls. Its diet is brought to it by the parents and consists mostly of small insects and other soft invertebrates. Remaining low and quiet in the nest is its main defense against predators.
- Type
- Wing
- Conservation status
- CR
Growth chain
- Yellow-breasted Bunting Hatchling
- Yellow-breasted Bunting Fledgling
- ?