yellowhammer

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A small bunting (Emberiza citrinella) native to Eurasia and northern Africa and introduced into New Zealand, having bright yellow plumage on the head, neck, and breast.

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The yellow bunting, Emberiza citrinella, one of the commonest birds of the western Palearctic region.

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In the United States, a local misnomer of the flicker, or golden-winged woodpecker, Colaptes auratus (see cut under flicker).

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A gold coin; a yellow boy.

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A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark.

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The flicker.

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A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of Eurasia which is mainly yellow in colour.

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A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.

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European bunting the male being bright yellow