Scientific name: Emberiza impetuani
A rather plain, nondescript bunting. Head sandy brown with darker brown streaking on crown and a distinctive broad buffy supercilium ("eyebrow").
It generally prefers arid, open shrubland, desert grassland, dry watercourses, sparse grassland or shrubland on rocky ridges, eroded gullies, road verges and occasionally gardens of Karoo villages.
It mainly eats grass seeds, foraging on bare ground with scattered shrubs and stones.
