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Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (Emberiza tahapisi)

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
Photo: Derek Keats via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

The cinnamon-breasted bunting (Emberiza tahapisi) or cinnamon-breasted rock-bunting is a species of bird in the family Emberizidae. It is widespread in Africa south of the Sahara. The cinnamon-breasted bunting was formally described in 1836 by the Scottish zoologist Andrew Smith under the current binomial name Emberiza tahapisi. His description was based on specimens found near the source of the Vaal River in South Africa. The specific epithet tahapisi is from the Tswana word "Thagapitse" that is used for various finches in the family Emberizidae.

Source: Cinnamon-breasted bunting on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Cinnamon-breasted Bunting. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:29) via xeno-canto.org/463924, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Zambia and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 75 recordings for this species in total.

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