Yellowhammer
Emberiza citrinella
Gulspurven er en fugleart i familien af værlinger. Fuglen måler 16,5 cm.
Slim, 16.5 cm bunting with a long tail. The male is bright yellow on the head and underparts, with a heavily streaked brown back, a rufous and white in the outer tail — the rufous rump is the mark that holds when the is otherwise worn.
Voice
The song opens with a string of short notes and ends in one long, drawn-out whistle — Danes count it up to seven, the last "syyyyv" long and drawn out. The call is a "zit", the alarm a "see" and the flight call a trilled "tirrr".
Facts
Wingspan
26 cm
Conservation status
ikke truet
Family
buntings
Emberizidae
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This is a short overview for the quiz. For the full account, go to the sources:
- Danmarks Fugle at the Danish Ornithological Society (in Danish)
- Wikipedia (in Danish)The description above is from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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