Rustic bunting
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Emberizidae |
| Genus: | Emberiza |
| Species: | E. rustica
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| Emberiza rustica Pallas, 1776
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| Range of E. rustica Breeding Passage Non-breeding
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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. The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific rustica is Latin for "rustic, simple".[2]
The rustic bunting was first formally Species description described in 1776 by the Prussian naturalist and explorer Peter Simon Pallas with Dauria give as the type locality. This species is classified in the genus Emberiza, the typical buntings, in the family Emberizidae.[3] Within Emberiza the rustic bunting is teh sister species to the little bunting (E. pusilla).[4]
There are two subspecies:[3]
- Emberiza rustica rustica: breeds in the taiga over most of Eurasia from Scandinavia to Siberia.
- Emberiza rustica latifascia: breeds in far eastern Siberia from Yakutsk to Kamchatka.
It breeds across the northern Palearctic. It is migratory, wintering in south-east Asia, Japan, Korea, and eastern China. It is a rare wanderer to western Europe.[3][1]
It breeds in wet coniferous woodland. Four to six eggs are laid in a nest in a bush or on the ground. Its natural food consists of seeds, and when feeding young, insects.[5]
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.[5]
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.[5]
The call is a zit, similar to that of a song thrush (Turdus philomelos), and the song is a melancholic delee-deloo-delee.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b BirdLife International (2016). "Emberiza rustica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22720960A89641304. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22720960A89641304.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, United Kingdom: Christopher Helm. pp. 145, 344. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ a b c "Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica Pallas, PS 1776". Avibase. Denis Lepage. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ Cai, T.; Wu, G.; Sun, L.; Zhang, Y.; Peng, Z.; Guo, Y.; Liu, X.; Pan, T.; Chang, J.; Sun, Z.; Zhang, B. (2021). "Biogeography and diversification of Old World buntings (Aves: Emberizidae): radiation in open habitats". Journal of Avian Biology. 52 (6). doi:10.1111/jav.02672. S2CID 236608560.
- ^ a b c d Clive Byers; Urban Olsson; Jon Curson (1995). Buntings and Sparrows: A Guide to the Buntings and North American Sparrows. Pica Press. pp. 161–164. ISBN 1873403194.
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