Painted Bunting

Passerina cirisOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Cardinals and Grosbeaks (Cardinalidae)
Painted Bunting Head Illustration_2

Head

  • Bill Shape: Cone
  • Eye color: Brown iris
  • Head Pattern: Eyering (complete or broken)
  • Crown color: Blue
  • Forehead color: Blue, Purple or Violet
  • Nape Color: Blue
  • Throat color: Blue, Purple or Violet
  • Cere color:
Painted Bunting Body Illustration_2

Body

  • Length Range: 12-13 cm (5-5.5 in)
  • Weight: 22 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
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Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Short flights wih rapid wing beats.
  • Wingspan Range: 20-21 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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Family Cardinals and Grosbeaks (Cardinalidae)_blue
Species Passerina ciris
Length5 - 5.5 Inches
Wingspan8.25 Inches

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.
Painted Bunting Body Illustration_2
● 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