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Bunting (bird)
Bunting may refer to: Birds * ''Emberiza'', a group of Old World passerine birds * ''Passerina'', a group of birds in the Cardinalidae family known as the North American buntings * Blue bunting, ''Cyanocompsa parellina'' * Lark bunting, ''Calamospiza melanocorys'' * ''Plectrophenax'', snow and McKay's buntings * Lapland longspur or Lapland bunting, ''Calcarius lapponicus'' Other uses * Bunting (animal behavior) * Bunting (decoration), festive decorations * Bunting (horse) (1961–1985/86), the name of a Swedish horse * Bunting (surname), including a list of people with the name * Bunt (baseball) A bunt is a batting (baseball), batting technique in baseball or softball, fastpitch softball. Official Baseball Rules define a bunt as follows: "A bunt is a batted ball not swung at, but intentionally met with the bat and tapped slowly within the ..., a batting technique * Stephen Bunting, English Darts Player See also * * Bye, baby Bunting, a nursery rhyme {{Disambiguat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emberiza
The buntings are a group of Old World passerine birds forming the genus ''Emberiza'', the only genus in the Family (biology), family Emberizidae. The family contains 44 species. They are seed-eating birds with stubby, conical bills. Taxonomy 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 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 10th edition of Systema Naturae, tenth edition of his ''Systema Naturae''. The type species was subsequently designated as the yellowhammer (''Emberiza citrinella''). The genus name ''Emberiza'' is from Old German , a bunting. The origin of the English "bunting" is unknown. A 2008 g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passerina
The genus ''Passerina'' is a group of birds in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). Although not closely related to the buntings in the family Emberizidae, they are sometimes known as the North American buntings. The males show vivid colors in the breeding season; the plumage of females and immature birds is duller. These birds go through two molts in a year; the males are generally less colorful in winter. They have short tails and short slim legs. They have smaller bills than other Cardinalidae; they mainly eat seeds in winter and insects in summer. The blue grosbeak (''P. caerulea'') was once placed in the monotypic genus, ''Guiraca''. Taxonomy and list of species The genus ''Passerina'' was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816. The type species was designated in 1840 as the indigo bunting (''Passerina cyanea'') by the English zoologist George Robert Gray George Robert Gray (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoology, zoolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Bunting
The blue bunting (''Cyanocompsa parellina'') is a species of passerine in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks. It is found in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Taxonomy and systematics French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte described the blue bunting in 1850 as ''Passerina parellina'', and then ''Cyanoloxia parellina''. German ornithologist Jean Cabanis defined the genus ''Cyanocompsa'' in 1861, giving it its current binomial name. The blue bunting is the only member of its genus. It has four subspecies, the nominate ''Cyanocompsa parellina parellina'', ''C. p. beneplacita'', ''C. p. indigotica'', and ''C. p. lucida''. The last is sometimes included in ''C. p. beneplacita''.Brewer, D. (2020). Blue Bunting (''Cyanocompsa parellina''), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lark Bunting
The lark bunting (''Calamospiza melanocorys'') is a medium-sized American sparrow native to central and western North America. It was designated the state bird of Colorado in 1931. Taxonomy The lark bunting is monotypic, the only member of the genus ''Calamospiza'', and is not closely related to any other genera. It was first described by J. K. Townsend in 1837, from a specimen collected on a trip he took with Thomas Nuttall, under the name ''Fringilla bicolor''. This is a preoccupied name, so Leonhard Hess Stejneger renamed the species in 1885 ''Calamospiza melanocorys''. By then, the lark bunting had already been given its own genus, the one it is still placed in, by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1838. Description Lark buntings are small songbirds, with a short, thick, bluish bill. There is a large patch of white on the wings and they have a relatively short tail with white tips at the end of the feathers. Breeding males have an all black body with a large white patch on the u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plectrophenax
''Plectrophenax'' is a small genus of passerine birds of the longspur Family (biology), family Calcariidae. Taxonomy The genus ''Plectrophenax'' was introduced in 1882 by the Norwegian born zoologist Leonhard Stejneger with the snow bunting as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''plēktron'' meaning "cock’s spur" with ''phenax'' meaning "imposter". Species The genus contains two species, which may be conspecific. They are high Arctic breeding seed-eating birds with stubby, conical bills, and much white in the plumage, especially in adult males. They nest in rock crevices. As would be expected, both species are highly bird migration, migratory, wintering in more temperate areas. The plumages are similar, but McKay's has more white and less black in the plumage, especially in the wings and tail. Adult breeding males of both species are mainly white with contrasting black on at least the wings, but are duller in winter. Females have white and brown plumage. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lapland Longspur
The Lapland longspur (''Calcarius lapponicus''), also known as the Lapland bunting, is a passerine bird in the longspur family (biology), family Calcariidae, a group separated by most modern authors from the Fringillidae (Old World finches). Taxonomy The Lapland longspur was Species description, formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, tenth edition of his ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with the finches in the genus ''Fringilla'' and coined the binomial name ''Fringilla lapponica''. The Lapland longspur is now one of three longspurs placed in the genus ''Calcarius'' that was introduced in 1802 by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein. The English name refers to the long hind claws. The genus name ''Calcarius'' is from Latin ''calcaria'', "spurs", and the specific ''lapponicus'' refers to Sápmi, Lapland. Five subspecies are recognised: * ''C. l. subcalcaratus'' (Christian Ludwig Brehm, Brehm, CL, 1826 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunting (animal Behavior)
Bunting is a form of animal behavior, often found in felids, in which the animal butts or rubs its head against other things, including people. Bunting as a behaviour can be viewed as a variation of scent rubbing. This is when an animal, typically a carnivore, will rub its back on a scent, such as that of prey, or on the urine of an animal of the same species. Evolutionarily speaking, scent rubbing is the oldest form of olfactic communication, scent communication and bunting is a derivative of this behaviour. Rolling in the scent of another animal was an adaptation to camouflage the scent of a predator or outside male, in order to get closer to mates. Bunting is generally considered to be a form of territorial scent-marking behaviour, where the cat rubs the scent glands on its cheeks and forehead on the object being marked. After a display of aggression, a cat will begin bunting nearby objects as a form of Territory (animal), territorial display toward a rival cat. Bunting and al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunting (decoration)
Bunting refers to decorative flags, wide streamers, or draperies made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or cardboard in imitation of fabric. Bunting is also a collection of flags, and the fabric used to make flags. The fabric was originally a specific type of lightweight worsted wool fabric, but can also be cotton. Description Bunting are festive or patriotic decorations made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags, lengths of fabric in the colors gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes, draperies, and wide streamers. The colors are often those of national flags. Bunting decorations are used on streets and buildings at special occasions and political events. The term ''bunting'' also refers to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship; the officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as ''bunts'', a term still used for a ship's communica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunting (horse)
Bunting (1961 – mid-1980s) was a Swedish halfbreed grey horse made famous for his participation in Olle Hellbom's Pippi Longstocking films. He played Pippi's horse Lilla gubben. Bunting was first called Illbatting and then Batting; he was owned by Rudolf Öberg, and had been a gift for him at his 60th birthday. When it was time to film the Pippi movies the film crew contacted him and used Bunting during filming. Bunting was completely white so the crew had to paint black dots onto his skin to make him look like the horse in the books. It was during filming that Inger Nilsson, the actress who played Pippi, chose the name of Lilla gubben. In the books her horse is only mentioned as "the horse". After the final film was completed Bunting returned to a riding school, and was later moved to a stable in Vallentuna Vallentuna is the seat of Vallentuna Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, with 33,219 inhabitants in 2018. Vallentuna's cultural landscape is well preserved, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunting (surname)
Bunting is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Shane Bunting, (born 1975) better known as Madchild; Canadian-born rap artist * Arthur Bunting (1936–2017), British rugby league footballer and coach *Basil Bunting (1900–1985), British modernist poet * Bill Bunting (born 1947), American basketball player * Chris Bunting, British comic book writer *Christopher Bunting (1925–2005), English cellist *Christopher William Bunting (1837–1896), Irish-born Canadian politician * David Michael Bunting (born 1960), British poet/musician *Edward Bunting (1773–1843), Irish musician * Edward L. Bunting (1883–1962), English cricketer *Eve Bunting (born 1928), Californian author *Heinrich Bünting (1545–1606), German pastor, theologian and mapmaker *Hem Bunting (born 1985), Cambodian athlete * Ian Bunting (born 1996), American football player * Jabez Bunting (1779–1858), British Wesleyan Methodist minister * Jo Bunting, television producer *John Bunting (serial killer) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunt (baseball)
A bunt is a batting (baseball), batting technique in baseball or softball, fastpitch softball. Official Baseball Rules define a bunt as follows: "A bunt is a batted ball not swung at, but intentionally met with the bat and tapped slowly within the infield." To bunt, the batter loosely holds the baseball bat, bat in front of home plate and intentionally Batted ball, taps the ball into play. A properly executed bunt will create weak contact with the ball and/or strategically direct it, forcing the infielders to make a difficult defensive play to record an out (baseball), out. Technique The strategy in bunting is to ground the ball into fair territory, as far from the fielders as possible but within the Baseball, infield. This requires not only physical dexterity and concentration, but also an awareness of the baseball fielding positions, fielders' positions in relation to the baserunner or baserunners, their likely reactions to the bunt, and knowledge of the pitcher's most likely pit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Bunting
Stephen Bunting (born 9 April 1985) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is currently ranked world number four. Nicknamed "the Bullet", Bunting formerly competed in British Darts Organisation (BDO) events. He is a former BDO World Champion, having won the 2014 World Championship. He also won three other BDO major titles: the World Masters in 2012 and 2013 and the 2012 Zuiderduin Masters. He switched to the PDC after accepting a Tour Card in 2014, and has since won seven titles; four ranking Pro Tour titles and three non-ranking. He won his first PDC major title at the 2024 Masters, defeating Michael van Gerwen in the final. He also reached the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship in 2021 and 2025. Bunting won his first two World Series of Darts titles in 2025; at the Bahrain Darts Masters and Nordic Darts Masters. He won his first PDC European Tour title at the 2025 International Darts Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
