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title: "Grijze gors"
description: "Emberiza cia — Vogels. The rock bunting (Emberiza cia) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/rock-bunting
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Grijze gors

> Emberiza cia — Vogels. The  rock bunting (Emberiza cia) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.

- Scientific name: *Emberiza cia*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Bergen)
- iNaturalist observations: 8918
- Wikidata: [Q205491](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205491)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9193](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9193)

## Names

- en: Rock Bunting
- de: Zippammer
- es: Escribano montesino
- fr: Bruant fou
- nl: Grijze gors
- pt: Cia
- pl: Głuszek

## Countries with the most observations

ES (2478), IT (875), PT (640), RU (629), FR (499), IN (343), GE (183), AM (173), IR (145), DZ (141), KZ (141), CH (137)

## Summary

The  rock bunting (Emberiza cia) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific cia is from a local Italian name for this bird, from zirlare,  "to chirp".

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_bunting

## Photo

![Grijze gors](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/rock-bunting/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175400953

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/rock-bunting?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).