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Emberiza rustica

Emberiza rustica (*)

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Aves
Subclassis: Carinatae
Infraclassis: Neornithes
Parvclassis: Neognathae
Ordo: Passeriformes
Subordo: Passeri
Parvordo: Passerida
Superfamilia: Passeroidea
Familia: Emberizidae
Genus: Emberiza
Species: Emberiza rustica
Subspecies: E. r. latifascia - E. r. rustica

Name

Emberiza rustica Pallas, 1776

Reference

Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs 3 p.698

Vernacular names
Български: Белогуша овесарка
Català: Repicatalons rústic
Česky: Strnad rolní
Deutsch: Waldammer
Ελληνικά: Βαλτοτσίχλονο
English: Rustic Bunting
Español: Escribano rústico
Euskara: Baso-berdantza
Galego: Escribenta rústica
日本語: カシラダカ
Suomi: Pohjansirkku
Svenska: Videsparv
Türkçe: Ak kaşlı kiraz kuşu

The Rustic Bunting, Emberiza rustica, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.

It breeds across northern Europe and Asia. It is migratory, wintering in south east Asia, Japan, and eastern China. It is a rare wanderer to western Europe.

It breeds in wet coniferous woodland. 4-6 eggs are laid in a nest in a bush or on the ground. Its natural food consists of insects when feeding young, and otherwise seeds.

This bird is similar in size to a Reed Bunting. It has white underparts with reddish flank, pink legs and a pink lower mandible. The summer male has a black head with a white throat and supercilium and a reddish breast band.

The female has a heavily streaked brown back and brown face with a whitish supercilium. She resembles a female Reed Bunting, but has the reddish flank streaks, a chestnut nape and a pink, not grey, lower mandible.

The call is a distinctive zit, and the song is a melancholic delee-deloo-delee.

References

* BirdLife International (2004). Emberiza rustica. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

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