Rustic bunting
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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".<ref name =job>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref name = Avibase>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Within Emberiza the rustic bunting is teh sister species to the little bunting (E. pusilla).<ref name=cai>Template:Cite journal</ref>
There are two subspecies:<ref name = Avibase/>
- 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.<ref name = Avibase/><ref name = iucn/>
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.<ref name = Byers>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref name = Byers/>
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.<ref name = Byers/>
The call is a zit, similar to that of a song thrush (Turdus philomelos), and the song is a melancholic delee-deloo-delee.<ref name = Byers/>
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