Emberiza citrinella
(L 6.25")
State bird of Alabama (although
referring to the Northern Flicker)
...the “Yellowhammer” state.
Emberiza is an old German
name for a bunting;
citrinella is Italian for a
small yellow bird.
Dorte’s
sommer
hus
11Jun2006
Poetry is like a bird, it
ignores all frontiers.
(Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
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Boesman
Macaulay
Library