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- Varied buntings look similar to indigos, but they are even more richly colored. Males can appear nearly purple with reddish highlights along the back of the head and the throat. Females and young males are a soft gray-brown hue. Look for especially thick and curved bills on varieds, too.
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Adult male Varied Buntings are a stunning mosaic of rich plum, crimson, cherry red, and lavender-violet. In the shadows of their favored habitats—desert thorn forest, stream thickets, scrubby woodlands, and overgrown clearings—the colors of the plumage vanish, and the birds look blackish.
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Less well-known than its bunting family members, the indigo bunting, lazuli bunting and painted bunting, the male varied bunting is just as stunning. In the breeding season, males are a vibrant purple and red, with a distinctive red eye ring and a black patch near their bill. In the non-breeding season, males moltinto brownish plumage. They are sma...
Female varied buntings and young males are lighter brown in color, with no visible streaking or wing bars. “I took this shot on a hot summer day at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museumin Tucson. I had never seen a female varied bunting eat from a cactus fruit, so it was very exciting for me to snap this moment,” says Dawn Arjes of Paw Paw, Illinois. Le...
You’ll only find these birds if you head way down to the southwest. Discover more desert birds of the southwest. Look for them in the summer breeding season along the southern border of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. They are short-distance migrants and are year-round residents in Mexico. Want to see one? Don’t miss the top 5 birding hotspots in so...
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Adult male Varied Buntings are a stunning mosaic of rich plum, crimson, cherry red, and lavender-violet. In the shadows of their favored habitats—desert thorn forest, stream thickets, scrubby woodlands, and overgrown clearings—the colors of the plumage vanish, and the birds look blackish.
Mar 8, 2022 · Varied buntings look similar to indigos, but they are even more richly colored. Males can appear nearly purple with reddish highlights along the back of the head and the throat. Females and young males are a soft gray-brown hue. Look for especially thick and curved bills on varieds, too. Discover the desert birds of the Southwest
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Aug 15, 2017 · Adult male Varied Buntings are a stunning mosaic of rich plum, crimson, cherry red, and lavender-violet. In the shadows of their favored habitats—desert thorn forest, stream thickets, scrubby woodlands, and overgrown clearings—the colors of the plumage vanish, and the birds look blackish.
The varied bunting (Passerina versicolor) is a species of songbird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae. The range of the varied bunting stretches from the southern parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the United States south throughout Mexico as far as Oaxaca.
At a Glance. Brushy country near the Mexican border provides a summer home for this elegant bunting. The dense and thorny nature of its habitat may make it seem hard to approach, but the bird is not especially shy, and sometimes may be watched at very close range.
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