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Identification

In summer the male Yellowhammer can look as yellow as a canary, but with thin black lines around the face and a rustier breast. Females are duller but clearly yellow and the juveniles are duller still, sometimes showing no yellow at all. They can be told from most other streaky brown birds by the combination of a rich chestnut rump and obvious white outer tail feathers.

Habitat

Breeds and winters in hedgerows and scrub, especially gorse and hawthorn thickets.

Migration

Largely a sedentary bird although northernmost birds are migratory wintering within the breeding range. British birds rarely move more than a few kilometres. Some birds from Scandinavia probably occur on the east coast of Britain.

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For the purposes of our bird news services, Yellowhammer is classed as Common: common species, including species that are certain or probable escapees from captivity when occurring in the British Isles. (Note that rarity levels are currently applied nationally and may not reflect local variations in abundance.)

Greenan, Ayr 31/08/2010	Warkworth, Northumbs 15/08/2010	New England Bay, Dumf & Gall 31/07/2010	New England Bay, Dumf & Gall 30/07/2010	New England Bay, Dumf & Gall 30/07/2010
undisc. site, Dorset 25/07/2010	Ythan Estuary, Aberdeenshire 01/06/2010	Jerzmanki, Lower Silesia, Poland 19/07/2010	Jerzmanki, Poland 19/07/2010	E.Dereham, Norfolk 19/07/2010

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Yellowhammer breeds in the following countries (Bird News Extra subscribers will see population statistics and information on trends for each country):

Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Britain
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lichtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Moldova
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine

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