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Bird name:

Blue Bunting

Cyanocompsa parellina

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Cardinals and Grosbeaks (Cardinalidae)

Code 4

BLBU

Code 6

CYAPAR

ITIS

179546

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



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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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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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