Breeding Location:
Wooded areas near water
Breeding Type:
Monogamous, Solitary nester
Breeding Population:
Rare
Egg Color:
White to light blue
Number of Eggs:
2
Incubation Days:
11 - 13
Egg Incubator:
Female
Nest Material:
Grasses and rootlets, with lining of finer materials.
Migration:
Nonmigratory
Recommended Products:
General
Blue Bunting: Small, stocky bunting with stout, black bill. Male is deep blue overall with black face and upper breast. Female is uniformly brown with gray bill.
Range and Habitat
Blue Bunting: Breeds in Mexico and along the Texas-Mexico border.
Breeding and Nesting
Blue Bunting: Two white to light blue eggs are laid in a nest made of grass and rootlets, lined with finer materials, and built in a bush or low in a small tree. Incubation ranges from 11 to 13 days and is carried out by the female.
Foraging and Feeding
Blue Bunting: Eats seeds and insects; forages in brushy forest understory, dense scrubby thickets, and on the ground.
Readily Eats
Safflower, Apple Slices, Suet, Millet, Peanut Kernels, Fruit
Vocalization
Blue Bunting: Song is a varied, plaintive trilling of "see-you, see-you, see yee-suee-se-se-see" with one to two introductory notes followed by a trill, then fading away. Call is a metallic "chink."
Similar Species
Blue Bunting: Male Blue Grosbeak is bright purple-blue with two brown wingbars. Female is brown with occasional blue feathers on upperparts and two brown wingbars.
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