painted bunting

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painted bunting

n.
A small bird (Passerina ciris) of Central America and southern North America, the male of which has brilliant multicolored plumage.
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paint′ed bunt′ing


n.
a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
[1805–15, Amer.]
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The double-decker, with its painted bunting and iconic North East people and places, is headline sponsor Go North East's way of spreading the word about the June festival, which will feature more than 200 events.
Richard Eric Cole, 67, of 136 Painted Bunting Dr., Troutman, N.C., died Saturday, May 2nd at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center.
From a conservation point of view, noteworthy species were recorded such as Wood Stork and Painted Bunting.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Prothonotary Warbler, Least Bittern, Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, Wood Stork and Painted Bunting are just some of the birds that draw wildlife connoisseurs.
Other migratory birds known to frequent traditional coffee farms include the ovenbird, wood thrush, Baltimore oriole, ruby-throated and buff-bellied hummingbirds, swallow-tailed kite, Kentucky warbler, hermit warbler, painted bunting, greater pewee, chuck-will's-widow and short-tailed hawk.
The correct identification of the species is painted bunting.
It may look as if the painted bunting above is just playing in the water.
Among these species are the painted bunting (down 3.3 percent per year), field sparrow (down 3.3 percent), and golden-winged warbler (down 2.3 percent).
Only the painted bunting (Passerina ciris) exhibited increasing trends at both scales.
The 11 most abundant birds seen during summer surveys on Aquilla Lake included northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), northern cardinal, Carolina chickadee, yellow-billed cuckoo, dickcissel, killdeer (Charadrius vociferus), lark sparrow (Chondestes grammacus), eastern meadowlark, northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), mourning dove and painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
Ron, one of the group's keenest birders, proved to have an excellent memory for the complex wing-patterns and border-spots that distinguish look-alike butterflies, but couldn't resist straying off from time to time to search for the Painted Bunting known to be nesting in the vicinity.
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