Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)
Scotland
The Yellowhammer is a bunting found throughout most of Europe and extends eastwards into Siberia. It is a bird of farmland and the countryside and has suffered declining numbers in recent years.
Yellowhammer
These birds of the hedgerows and farmland always join us in the late winter and it is a great delight, as well as a treat, to watch them through my field-glasses.
Yellowhammer
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see woodpecker.
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Woodpecker - common name for members of the Picidae, a large family of climbing birds found in most parts of the world.
Five eggs, pen scribbled o'er with ink their shells,
Resembling writing scrolls, which Fancy reads
As Nature's poesy and pastoral spells -
They are the yellowhammer's and she dwells
Most poet like, 'mid brooks and flowery weeds.
- John Clare ...
Yellowhammer
Male
Bright yellow head, streaky chestnut brown upperparts, chestnut rump and pale yellow below.
Emberiza citrinella ...
Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella Found: Euorpe, Asia, New Zealand (introduced)
Photographed by: 1, 2) Cosmin Manci 3) hfuchs 4. 5) Vishnevskiy Vasily
Genus Miliaria - 1 species ...
Yellowhammer
Males are unmistakeable with a bright yellow head and underparts, brown back streaked with black, and chestnut rump. In flight it shows white outer tail feathers. Often seen perched on top of a hedge ... More...
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Yellowhammer
Yellowthroat
The yellowthroats are New World warblers in the genus Geothlypis.
The Yellowhammer is also mentioned in a famous University of Alabama cheer. The Rammer Jammer Cheer pays tribute to the state bird in its final line which reads, Rammer Jammer, Yellowhammer, give 'em hell, Alabama! ...
Alabama - Yellowhammer (Yellow-shafted flicker)
Alaska - Willow ptarmigan
Arizona - Cactus wren
Arkansas - Mockingbird
California - California valley quail (Lophortyx californica)
Colorado - Prairie Lark-Finch
Connecticut - Robin ...
Other In the Civil War (1860-1865), Confederate soldiers from Alabama were called "Yellowhammers" because of the yellow cloth on their uniforms. It apparently reminded other soldiers of the underwings of "yellowhammers" or northern flickers.
In some parts of the United States, flickers are known as yellowhammers! They build their nests in holes in trees, telephone poles or birdhouses. Gilded flickers may build their nests in cactuses. The female will usually lay six to eight eggs.
The most famous member of the Colaptes genus is the Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus, known in parts of the American south as the 'Yellowhammer'. The bird is the state bird of Alabama, and the state's nickname is the 'Yellowhammer State'.
THE GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER.
[Northern Flicker or Yellowhammer (see also Red-shafted Woodpecker).]
(State Bird of Alabama)
PICUS AURATUS, Linn.
[Colaptes auratus.] ...
I walked the track from the South Bay refuge which climbs up a steep hill and affords a marvelous view. I had Skylarks and Yellowhammer up here. Pied Stilts were along the shore with a White-faced Heron.
Seal Colony ...
" The name "Yellow-hammer" comes from a term that was applied to a company of young cavalry soldiers from Huntsville. They were called the "yellowhammer company" because of the brilliant yellow bits of cloth on the sleeves, collars, ...
Common swift (Apus apus)
Common tern (Sterna hirundo)
Lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros)
Willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
Little tern (Sterna albifrons)
Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) ...
 See also: Finch, Flamingo, Chaffinch, Warbler, Sparrow
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