The three-eyed bunting (scientific name: Emberiza cioides) has five subspecies with a body length of about 16 cm and is a brown bunting. It has a striking black and white head pattern and a maroon chest strap, as well as white eyebrow lines. During the breeding season, males have a unique brown and black-and-white pattern on the face, with a chestnut chest and a brown waist. The female is pale in color, with yellow eyebrow lines and lower cheek lines, and thick yellow breasts. The winter and spring diet of the three-eyed bunting is dominated by wild grass species and mainly by insects in summer.
It prefers to move in open environments, found in hilly and semi-mountainous sparse broad-leaved woodlands, in shrubs and grasses in foothill plains or ravines, and in trees and farmland far from villages. It is mainly distributed in the eastern region of Asia, the Far East of Russia, Mongolia, the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago and China.
