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The male painted bunting is often described as the most beautiful bird in North America and as such has been nicknamed nonpareil, or "without equal". [6] Its colors, dark blue head, green back, red rump, and underparts, make it extremely easy to identify, but it can still be difficult to spot since it often skulks in foliage even when it is singing.
The painted bunting's juveniles have two inserted moults in their first autumn, each yielding plumage like an adult female. The first starts a few days after fledging replacing the juvenile plumage with an auxiliary formative plumage ; the second a month or so later giving the formative plumage .
Varied bunting. Male Female Passerina versicolor (Bonaparte, 1838) Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the United States south throughout Mexico as far as Oaxaca: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Painted bunting. Male Female Passerina ciris (Linnaeus, 1758)
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The buntings are a group of Old World passerine birds forming the genus Emberiza, the only genus in the family Emberizidae. The family contains 44 species. The family contains 44 species. They are seed -eating birds with stubby, conical bills.
The indigo bunting is the sister of two sister groups, a "blue" (lazuli bunting and blue grosbeak) and a "painted" (rose-bellied bunting, orange-breasted bunting, varied bunting, and painted bunting) clade. This genetic study shows these species diverged between 4.1 and 7.3 million years ago.
American oystercatcher, black skimmer, painted bunting, bald eagle, least tern, northern gannet Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge: Wood stork, white ibis, painted bunting Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site Wood stork, bald eagle, osprey, glossy ibis, painted bunting, yellow-throated warbler, sharp-tailed sparrow, northern parula
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