The painted bunting (Passerina ciris) is a species of bird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae. It is native to North America. The bright plumage of the male only comes in the second year of life; in the first year they can only be distinguished from the female by close inspection.
^BirdLife International (2018). "Passerina ciris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22723957A131475071. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22723957A131475071.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
northern Mexico The paintedbunting is also called the Mexican canary, painted finch, pope, or nonpareil. The male paintedbunting is often described as...
bunting and blue grosbeak) and a "painted" (rose-bellied bunting, orange-breasted bunting, varied bunting, and paintedbunting) clade. This genetic study shows...
Although not directly related to buntings in the family Emberizidae, they are sometimes known as the North American buntings (the North American Emberizidae...
World-endemic passerine birds that consists of cardinals, grosbeaks, and buntings. It also includes several other genera such as the tanager-like Piranga...
warbling vireo's song is a cheerful warble, similar to that of the paintedbunting and the purple finch. There are subtle differences in song between...
breeding and a drab eclipse plumage for some months afterward. The paintedbunting's juveniles have two inserted moults in their first autumn, each yielding...
the hues cyclically shifted in HSL space The hues in this image of a paintedbunting are cyclically rotated over time in HSL. One might notice that the...
loggerhead shrike, field sparrow, scissor-tailed flycatcher, Bell's vireo, paintedbunting, and Harris's sparrow. Wildfire suppression, overgrazing, and the spread...