Order PASSERIFORMES | Family EMBERIZIDAE |
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Common resident dispersing for winter at short distance. Inhabits stone slopes with short or height grass, shrubs and rare trees at 1000-1500 m. In spring migrants observed in March – mid-April. In breeding habitat appears from April. Breeding in separate pairs. Nest is built on ground, in bush or height grass from dry grass stems and leaves and lined with hair. Clutches of 4-6 eggs in mid-May – mid-July. Two broods are reared per year probably. Autumn migration not expressed, in non-breeding areas observed from first decade of September.
Breeding and occurs on migration at foothills and in Southwest Altai, in Kalbinskiy Altai, Saur, Monrak, Tarbagatay, in north-eastern part of Dzhungarskiy Alatau up to Bolshoy Baskan river, in Altynemel and Malaysary Mts.. In Tien Shan lives in places in Zailiyskiy and Kirgizskiy Alatau (common at Merke and in Aktokensay). Probably nests in Ketmen ridge and Turaygyr Mts., where recorded in summer. In Kokpek gorge singing male recorded 7 June, and near Charyn canyon observed 6 June 2003. Isolated breeding is known in Karkaralinsk (Kazakhishe upland), where 20-25 June 1952 and 11 June 1970 fledglings recorded. On migration and in winter, except for the outlined area, occurs in Chu-Iliyskiye Mts. and in Talasskiy Alatau ridge (Aksu-Dzhabagly Reserve).
Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005
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