Japanese Yellow Bunting merits concern regarding status with low numbers recorded and vulnerability to trapping
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After I saw two Japanese Yellow Buntings (aka simply Yellow Buntings Emberiza sulphurata) in Hong Kong this spring, I happened to notice that Birdlife has changed the species’ status from Vulnerable – as it was from 1994 to 2016, to Least Concern in 2022. This surprised me: after…