Painted Bunting Images

Painted Bunting Images, Facts and Information:

Passerina ciris

• Painted Buntings are small, seed-eating birds with bright, multi-colored plumage. Males have a blue head, green back, red underside, and reddish-brown rump. Females and immatures are a vivid green-yellow.
• Painted Buntings breed in the southeastern United States, from North Carolina to Florida and west to New Mexico and Oklahoma. They winter in Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America.
• Painted Buntings prefer brushy areas, woodland edges, overgrown fields, and gardens for their habitat. They often nest in thickets or tangles of vines.
• Painted Buntings eat seeds, grains, insects, and berries. They forage on the ground or in low vegetation.
• Painted Buntings lay 3-4 pale bluish-white eggs in a cup-shaped nest made of grasses, bark strips, and leaves. The female incubates the eggs for about 12 days. Both parents feed the young.
• Painted Buntings are also known as the Nonpareil, French for “no equal”, referring to their bright plumage.
• A group of Painted Buntings may be called a “murmuration”, “bouquet”, or “palette” of buntings.
• The oldest known Painted Bunting was over 12 years old.

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