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Bird name:

Painted Bunting

Passerina cirisOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Cardinals and Grosbeaks (Cardinalidae)

Codes: Common Name: PABU Scientific Name: PASCIR ITIS Taxonomic No.: 179156

Head

Topo Map: Perching-like Head

Bill Shape: Cone
Eye Color: Dark brown to hazel.
Head Pattern: Eyering (complete or broken)
Crown Color: Blue
Forehead Color: Blue
Nape Color: Blue
Throat Color: Red and blue.
Cere color: No Data

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Body

Topo Map: Perching-like Body

Length Range: 13-14 cm (5-5.5 in)
Weight: 23 g (0.8 oz)
Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
Color: Green, Blue, Purple or Violet, Red
Underparts: Red
Upperparts: Yellow and green back with brown-black wings.
Back Pattern: Solid
Belly Pattern: Solid
Breast Pattern: Solid

Flight

Topo Map: Perching-like Flight

Flight Pattern: Short flights wih rapid wing beats.
Wingspan Range: 20-22 cm (8-8.5 in)
Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
Tail Shape: Fan-shaped Tail
Tail Pattern: Solid
Upper Tail: Gray with red edges.
Under Tail: Gray
Leg Color: Gray

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Painted Bunting

Painted Bunting: Beautiful, medium bunting with bronze-green back and bright red rump and underparts. Head and nape are blue. Red eye-ring. Wings are dark with green shoulder patches. Feeds on seeds, insects and caterpillars. Short, low flight. Alternates rapid wing beats with wings pulled to sides.

● Song: "tsick"

● Foraging & Feeding: Painted Bunting: Eats mostly seeds in winter and insects, spiders, and snails in summer. Forages on the ground; also strips seed from grass stalks or snatches insects from spider webs.

● Breeding & nesting: Painted Bunting: Three to five light blue eggs with red brown markings are laid in a cup nest made of grass stems, rootlets, and bark strips, lined with moss and hair, and built near the ground in a bush or small tree. Incubation ranges from 11 to 12 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Painted Bunting: Male is unique; female is much greener than other female buntings.

Flight Pattern

Short flights wih rapid wing beats.

● Range & Habitat: Painted Bunting: Breeds from Missouri and North Carolina south to the southeastern states and west to New Mexico and Oklahoma. Spends winters from the Gulf coast states southward. Preferred habitats include brushy tangles, hedgerows, briar patches, woodland edges, and swampy thickets.

^BreedingMonogamous

^Population

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.8 Ounces

Perching-like Head

Perching-like Body

Perching-like Flight

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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