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Rock bunting

The Emberiza cia 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 cia is from a local Italian name for this bird, from zirlare, "to chirp"

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