bunting

any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of the families Fringillidae (finches, etc.) or Emberizidae, esp those of the genera Emberiza of the Old World and Passerina of North America. They all have short stout bills

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Abisko
African Studies
Allomorphosis
Arctic Subregion
Babaevskii, Semen
Babaevskii, Semen Petrovich
Bakuninism
Bird Migration
Blessing of the Shrimp Fleet
bunt
Cardinal
Colorado
Corn Bunting
Decembrists
Dostoevsky, Fedor
Dostoevsky, Fedor Mikhailovich
Emberiza
Emberizidae
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