Colorful sparrow

by Jasna Dragun

Title

Colorful sparrow

Artist

Jasna Dragun

Medium

Painting - Watercolor

Description

Buntings are a group of Eurasian and African passerine birds of the family Emberizidae.
They are seed-eating birds with stubby, conical bills, and are the Old World equivalents of the species known in North America as (American) sparrows. (However, these birds are not closely related to the Old World sparrows which are in the family Passeridae.)
Their habits are similar to those of finches, with which they sometimes used to be grouped. Some Pipridae are still named "finches" rather than "buntings". Conversely, there are species retaining the name "bunting" which are now classed in the cardinal family. Among those are the painted and indigo buntings.
With their vivid fusion of blue, green, yellow, and red, male Painted Buntings seem to have flown straight out of a childs coloring book. Females and immatures are a distinctive bright green with a pale eyering. These fairly common finches breed in the coastal Southeast and in the south-central U.S., where they often come to feeders. They are often caught and sold illegally as cage birds, particularly in Mexico and the Caribbean, a practice that puts pressure on their breeding populations.

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November 18th, 2015

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