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Rustic Bunting
Emberiza rustica
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About the Rustic Bunting
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". 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. Within Emberiza the rustic bunting is sister to the little bunting (E.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Emberiza rustica
- Family
- Old World Buntings
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the old world buntings family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Gray Bunting Emberiza variabilis
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Pallas's Bunting Emberiza pallasi
- Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos
- Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
- Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola
- Yellow-browed Bunting Emberiza chrysophrys
- Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans
- Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella
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