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Species
Near Threatenedvia IUCN
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- litter size
- 4.9
- egg incubation period
- 12
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- taxon name
- Emberiza rustica
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- Emberiza rustica
- taxon common name
- 田鹀
- taxon range
- Nanling Mountains
- diel cycle
- diurnality
- short name
- E. rustica
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Encyclopedic overview
Emberiza rustica MHNT 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. pusilla).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rustic Bunting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.