crested bunting

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PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN (Observe the Bird and recognize)..CRESTED BUNTING....WATERCOLOUR...A4...2013....[From a PHOTOGRAPH of KEDAR POTNIS].....The Crested Bunting (Melophus lathami) is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family, from South and Southeast Asia. It is usually considered monotypic in its genus, but some taxonomists place it in the genus Emberiza. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as generally fairly common (Byers et al. 1995), while the population in China has been been estimated at c.100-10,000 breeding pairs (Brazil 2009).