14-521: 44, see text The buntings are a group of Old World passerine birds forming the genus Emberiza , the only genus in the family Emberizidae . The family contains 44 species. They are seed -eating birds with stubby, conical bills. The family Emberizidae was formerly much larger and included the species now placed in the Passerellidae (New World sparrows) and Calcariidae (longspurs and snow buntings). Molecular phylogenetic studies found that
28-403: Is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern taxonomists from the finches (Fringillidae). The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz , a bunting. The specific chrysophrys is from Ancient Greek khrusophrus , "golden-browed". It breeds in eastern Siberia and is migratory , wintering in central and southern China. It
42-732: Is a term for Afro-Eurasia coined by Europeans after 1493, when they became aware of the existence of the Americas . It is used to contrast the continents of Africa , Europe , and Asia in the Eastern Hemisphere , previously thought of by the Europeans as comprising the entire world, with the " New World ", a term for the newly encountered lands of the Western Hemisphere , particularly the Americas. While located closer to Afro-Eurasia within
56-408: Is a very rare wanderer to western Europe. The yellow-browed bunting breeds in the taiga zone, and lays four eggs in an arboreal nest . In the wild, the adults' diet consists of seeds, but they feed insects to nestlings. This bird is smaller than a reed bunting , but is relatively large-headed. The upper parts are brown and heavily streaked, and the underparts are white with an orange hue on
70-518: Is from Old German Embritz , a bunting. The origin of the English "bunting" is unknown. A 2008 genetic study found that three emberizid species that were placed in their own monotypic genera clustered within the Emberiza . These were the crested bunting ( Melophus lathami ), the slaty bunting ( Latouchiornis siemsseni ), and the corn bunting ( Miliaria calandra ). All three species are now included in
84-1077: The British Isles , Japan , Sri Lanka , Madagascar and the Malay Archipelago ) has been referred to as the World Island . The term may have been coined by Sir Halford John Mackinder in The Geographical Pivot of History . [REDACTED] Africa [REDACTED] Antarctica [REDACTED] Asia [REDACTED] Australia [REDACTED] Europe [REDACTED] North America [REDACTED] South America [REDACTED] Afro-Eurasia [REDACTED] Americas [REDACTED] Eurasia [REDACTED] Oceania [REDACTED] Africa [REDACTED] Eurasia [REDACTED] North America [REDACTED] Oceania [REDACTED] South America Yellow-browed bunting The yellow-browed bunting ( Emberiza chrysophrys )
98-607: The Bronze Age onwards, resulting in the parallel development of the early civilizations , mostly in the temperate zone between roughly the 45th and 25th parallels north, in the area of the Mediterranean , including North Africa . It also included Mesopotamia , the Persian plateau , the Indian subcontinent , China , and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa . These regions were connected via
112-728: The Silk Road trade route, and they had a pronounced Iron Age period following the Bronze Age. In cultural terms, the Iron Age was accompanied by the so-called Axial Age , referring to cultural, philosophical and religious developments eventually leading to the emergence of the historical Western ( Hellenism , " classical "), Near Eastern ( Zoroastrian and Abrahamic ) and Far Eastern ( Hinduism , Buddhism , Jainism , Sikhism , Confucianism , Taoism ) cultural spheres . The mainland of Afro-Eurasia (excluding islands or island groups such as
126-564: The Eastern Hemisphere, Australia is considered neither an Old World nor a New World land, since it was only discovered by the Europeans later. Both Australia and Antarctica were associated instead with the Terra Australis that had been posited as a hypothetical southern continent. In the context of archaeology and world history , the term "Old World" includes those parts of the world which were in (indirect) cultural contact from
140-2112: The family Cardinalidae . The family is divided into four major clades. The species in Clade I are mainly African while those in Clades II to IV are Palearctic: Cabanis's bunting – Emberiza cabanisi Golden-breasted bunting – Emberiza flaviventris Somali bunting – Emberiza poliopleura Cape bunting – Emberiza capensis Lark-like bunting – Emberiza impetuani Socotra bunting – Emberiza socotrana Gosling's bunting – Emberiza goslingi Cinnamon-breasted bunting – Emberiza tahapisi House bunting – Emberiza sahari Striolated bunting – Emberiza striolata Yellow-throated bunting – Emberiza elegans Slaty bunting – Emberiza siemsseni Ochre-rumped bunting – Emberiza yessoensis Pallas's bunting – Emberiza pallasi Common reed bunting – Emberiza schoeniclus Yellow-browed bunting – Emberiza chrysophrys Tristram's bunting – Emberiza tristrami Grey bunting – Emberiza variabilis Yellow-breasted bunting – Emberiza aureola Chestnut bunting – Emberiza rutila Little bunting – Emberiza pusilla Rustic bunting – Emberiza rustica Black-faced bunting – Emberiza spodocephala Yellow bunting – Emberiza sulphurata Crested bunting – Emberiza lathami Red-headed bunting – Emberiza bruniceps Black-headed bunting – Emberiza melanocephala Corn bunting – Emberiza calandra Chestnut-eared bunting – Emberiza fucata Tibetan bunting – Emberiza koslowi Jankowski's bunting – Emberiza jankowskii Meadow bunting – Emberiza cioides Rock bunting – Emberiza cia Godlewski's bunting – Emberiza godlewskii Grey-necked bunting – Emberiza buchanani Cinereous bunting – Emberiza cineracea Cretzschmar's bunting – Emberiza caesia Ortolan bunting – Emberiza hortulana Cirl bunting – Emberiza cirlus White-capped bunting – Emberiza stewarti Old World The " Old World " ( Latin : Mundus Vetus )
154-407: The flanks and some fine dark streaks. Their stout beaks are pink. The breeding male has a black head with white crown and moustachial stripes and throat. There is a bright yellow eyebrow stripe. Females and young birds have a weaker head pattern, with brown instead of black, and can be confused with little buntings ; however, there is always some yellow in the eyebrow, as well as at least a hint of
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#1732869436497168-661: The genus Emberiza . A large DNA-based study of the passerines published in 2019 found that the buntings are most closely related to the longspurs and snow buntings in the family Calcariidae . Ornithologists Edward Dickinson and Leslie Christidis in the fourth edition of the Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World chose to split up Emberiza and recognise the genera Fringillaria , Melophus , Granativora , Emberiza , and Schoeniclus . Their example has not been followed by
182-468: The large family consisted of distinct clades that were better treated as separate families. The genus Emberiza is now the only genus placed in the family Emberizidae. The genus was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae . The type species was subsequently designated as the yellowhammer ( Emberiza citrinella ). The genus name Emberiza
196-627: The online version of the Handbook of the Birds of the World nor by Frank Gill and David Donsker in the list of world birds that they maintain on behalf of the International Ornithologists' Union . The British Ornithologists' Union has argued that splitting the genus provides little benefit and destabilizes the nomenclature. Species in the New World genus Passerina include the word "bunting" in their common names, but are now classed in
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