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:

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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Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

Face

The front part of the head consisting of the bill, eyes, cheeks and chin.

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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