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	What do we know? -- Georgia's Painted Buntings
		Painted Buntings use some forest regeneration cuts for nesting for a few years if grasses and shrub-scrub habitat are allowed to cover the area for four to five years after the timber is removed.
		Painted Buntings are very successful nesters in old growth forests but are not as abundant as in beach dune shrub-scrub or open-canopy, managed pine forests.
		Painted Buntings will nest successfully if populations of white-tailed deer are managed to prevent loss of the understory because of overbrowsing.
	www.pwrc.usgs.gov /pabu/h/weknow.html (1144 words)

	Painted Bunting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) belongs to the Passerina genus of birds in the Cardinal family Cardinalidae.
		The plumage of female and juvenile Painted Buntings is green and yellow-green, serving as camouflage in thickets, woodland edges and brushy areas.
		Painted Buntings are mostly monogamous and are solitary or in pairs during breeding season.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Painted_Bunting (196 words)

	SEO - Eastern Painted Bunting
		The painted bunting is a sparrow-sized member of the finch family and is considered by many to be North America's most beautiful bird, said John Cely, wildlife biologist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources.
		Painted buntings consist of two separate populations, a western one that has a more widespread range covering seven states, and an eastern population that has a highly restricted coastal distribution confined to only four states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida.
		Painted bunting habitat must be actively managed to stay in the appropriate successional stage these birds prefer; otherwise a fallow field left alone will eventually turn into a pine or pine-hardwood forest and the buntings will leave.
	www.southeasternoutdoors.com /wildlife/birds/articles/eastern-painted-bunting-decline.html (833 words)

	Wildlife Viewing - Species Spotlight - Painted Bunting
		The painted bunting is one of the most rapidly declining songbirds in the eastern United States.
		Painted buntings are medium-sized and gloriously colored: males are blue, red, yellow and green, females a greenish yellow.
		Painted buntings lay about four eggs in deep-cup nests of grass and sticks constructed at the end of branches, usually in Spanish moss.
	www.floridaconservation.org /viewing/species/bunting.htm (213 words)

	Nature's Painted Bird
		Coloration of the female painted bunting (right) is drab in comparison to the "unparalleled" colors of the male (left).
		I explained that painted buntings are southern cousins of indigo buntings, common summer residents of forest edges throughout Missouri.
		Although painted buntings have sometimes been seen in the Springfield area, their primary range lies to the south, along the Arkansas border.
	mdc.mo.gov /conmag/1997/07/20.htm (833 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Painted buntings are polygamous, multiple females breeding with one male, and are fiercely territorial (Nicholson 1997).
		Painted bunting are found primarily along the Atlantic coast and in gulf coast states (Coe 1994).
		Painted buntings might be particularly susceptible to brown headed cow birds because they nest in fields on forest edges, favorite places for brown headed cow birds.
	www.sewanee.edu /Biology/courses/Bio201/98projects/paint.html (731 words)

	UNCW News - Painted Bunting Observer Team Seeks Help from Citizen Scientists
		Wilmington -- The Painted Bunting Observer Team (PBOT) at the University of North Carolina Wilmington is seeking help from volunteer citizens to support a research study in North and South Carolina to develop strategies to sustain and increase the numbers of these brightly colored migratory birds.
		Sadly, the Painted Bunting population is declining in the coastal areas of North and South Carolina, said Dr. Jamie Rotenberg, ornithologist at UNCW.
		Painted Buntings (Passerina ciris) arrive in the Carolinas usually in April and stay throughout the summer, migrating south during the month of August.
	appserv02.uncw.edu /news/article.asp?ID=1916 (599 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Painted Bunting
		An adult male Painted Bunting is arguably the most distinctive songbird in North America, with the combination of a deep blue head, red underparts, a green back, and a red rump.
		Painted Bunting has two distinct breeding populations: one found along the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina south to central Florida; and another that stretches across much of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, southward into northern Mexico.
		Painted Bunting is identified as an extremely high priority species in Partners in Flight's Bird Conservation Plan for the South Atlantic Coastal Plain.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=156 (1007 words)

	Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nicknamed “nonpareil" (without equal) in French and “mariposa pintada" (painted butterfly) in Spanish, the painted bunting is one of the most spectacularly colored North American songbirds.
		As a result of their beautiful plumage, painted buntings are highly desired as a pet species in the wild bird trade.
		Unfortunately, the joint US-Mexico proposal to include the Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) in Appendix II (Prop.14) failed to obtain the two-thirds majority necessary and was defeated with a vote of 63 in favor, 57 against and 13 abstentions.
	www.defenders.org /cites/ptdbunting.html (269 words)

	NatureWorks - Painted Bunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The painted bunting is a sparrow-sized bird about 5 and a half inches in length.
		The painted bunting forages on the ground and in low vegetation for seeds, insects, spiders and snails.
		Though the painted bunting is colorful, it is difficult to spot because it is often under cover of brush and thickets.
	www.nhptv.org /Natureworks/paintedbunting.htm (255 words)

	Painted Bunting Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas
		The Painted Bunting is a small, brilliant songbird of the southern United States and northern Mexico.
		According to Stevenson and Anderson (1994), Painted Buntings have been observed in June and July in Key West or on the Dry Tortugas; therefore, some of the "possible" and "probable" breeding records in the Panhandle may also refer to migrants or vagrants.
		Like the Indigo Bunting and Blue Grosbeak, the Painted Bunting is establishing breeding populations in abandoned citrus groves in central Florida, but this expansion is currently limited to Volusia, Seminole, and Brevard counties.
	www.wildflorida.org /bba/pabu.htm (473 words)

	Golden Isles, Georgia: The Painted Bunting - A Species At Risk - Page 1 - Gateway to the Golden Isles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The bunting's habitat is mainly found in dense thickets of vegetation in open areas such as thick patches of brush and trees located on the edges of open fields.
		Painted Buntings are also known for frequenting backyard gardens in search of seeds and insects which are their main food source.
		The Painted Bunting's nest is deep-cupped and made of grass, sticks, roots and animal hair often times constructed at the ends of branches in clumps of Spanish moss.
	www.gatewaytothegoldenisles.com /article/id/698/page/1 (455 words)

	www.mrnussbaum.com - Painted Bunting
		Painted Buntings are fairly common along the south Atlantic Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and into parts of Texas.
		While Painted Buntings are very colorful, they made be hard to find in their preferred habitat of forest undergrowth, heavy shrubs, bushes, and low-lying vegetation.
		Painted Buntings eat insects and seeds and may form substantial flocks at bird feeders and bird baths.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /paintedbunting.htm (159 words)

	Newswise Science News \| Painted Bunting Observer Team Seeks Help from Citizen Scientists
		The Painted Bunting Observer Team (PBOT) at the University of North Carolina Wilmington is seeking help from volunteer citizens to support a research study in North and South Carolina to develop strategies to sustain and increase the numbers of these brightly colored migratory birds whose numbers are dwindling.
		Sadly, the Painted Bunting population is declining in the coastal areas of North and South Carolina, said Dr. Jamie Rotenberg, ornithologist at UNCW.
		Painted Buntings (Passerina ciris) arrive in the Carolinas usually in April and stay throughout the summer, migrating south during the month of August.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/519916/?sc=swtn (635 words)

	Painted Lark-Bunting
		My own figure of this species was drawn from the same specimen, which was kindly lent to me for that purpose by the Council of the Zoological Society.
		That the Painted Bunting at times retires far southward, probably accompanying the Lapland Longspur, is a fact for which I can vouch, having seen one on the shores of the Mississippi in December 1820, which however I missed on wing after having viewed it about two minutes, as it lay flat on the ground.
		Bill short, conical, stout, compressed toward the end, acuminate; its outlines straight, the lower mandible a little narrower than the upper at the base; the gap-line straight, slightly deflected at the base.
	www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F15_G1b.html (449 words)

	BISON Species Account 040115 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		NEW MEXICO 1978: Painted buntings summer in the lower Pecos Valley and vicinity and at least formerly in the lower Rio Grande Valley and are considered rare to fairly common.
		Painted buntings inhabit riparian and microphyll shrubland and adjacent habitats, and other shrublands at lower (2800-5500 ft) and middle (5000-7500 ft) elevations.
		The scrubby habitat of the painted bunting is being converted to pine plantations and beach-side condominiums.
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /states/nmex_main/species/040115.htm (1040 words)

	Painted Into a Corner - National Wildlife Magazine
		Painted buntings, like other migratory songbirds, spend winters in warm climates and fly north to breed in spring and summer.
		Buntings eat wild grass and weed seeds, and supply their young with tall-grass insects such as grass- hoppers.
		Nesting buntings that evade these predators must contend with the starling-sized brown-headed cowbird, another prime suspect in the case of the disappearing bunting.
	www.nwf.org /nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=25&articleID=681 (1593 words)

	Painted Bunting
		The method employed in securing the male Painted Finch is so connected with its pugnacious habits, that I feel inclined to describe it, especially as it is so different from the common way of alluring birds, that it may afford you, kind reader, some amusement.
		This is taken to the fields or near the orangeries, and placed in so open a situation, that it would be difficult for a living bird of any species to fly over it, without observing it.
		It alights on the edge of the trap for a moment, and throwing its body against the stuffed bird, brings down the trap, and is made prisoner.
	www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F15_G4a.html (1123 words)

	Description
		The Painted Bunting is one of the most brilliantly colored birds of North America.
		On the adult female, the upperparts are dark greenish and the underparts yellow green (Lowther, 1999).
		The Painted Bunting is a sparrow-sized bird with its overall length about 5 1/2 inches.
	www.rw.ttu.edu /sp_accounts/painted_bunting (123 words)

	Painted Into a Corner - efforts to save the painted bunting songbirds National Wildlife - Find Articles
		In studies in the Southeast and elsewhere, scientists are scrambling to learn more about the painted bunting and searching for clues on the causes of its decline.
		Suddenly a blaze of color streaks by and an adult male bunting lands on the road in front of her.
		She thinks warm weather in 1998 was a factor: good conditions for snakes, and therefore bad for buntings.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1169/is_1999_August-Sept/ai_55466295?lstpn=article_results&lstpc=search&lstpr=external&lstprs=other&lstwid=1&lstwn=search_results&lstwp=body_middle (886 words)

	All About Birds
		With bright blue, green, and red plumage, the breeding male Painted Bunting is one of the continent's most gaudily colorful birds.
		The western population of Painted Buntings begins its fall migration before molting, molts in staging areas in southern Arizona and northern Mexico, then continues to migrate further south.
		In contrast to the western population, the eastern population of Painted Buntings molts on its breeding grounds before migration.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Painted_Bunting.html (233 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Passerina ciris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Painted Bunting is only found in the southern portions of the United States during the breeding season, and mostly in the Southeast, for it occurs in the coastal region from North Carolina to the Florida panhandle, and from Mississippi to Texas north to Arkansas.
		The Painted Bunting is a species of concern throughout its southeastern range.
		The female Indigo Bunting is all brown compared to the overall yellow-green of the female Painted Bunting.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/birds/passeriformes/pciris.html (441 words)

	Joelle&M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Painted Bunting lives in open country, edges of fields, roadside thickets, gardens, and hedgerows.
		Bunting is a common name for small medium-sized bird.
		The Painted Bunting is one of the Genus Passerina, also it is called nonpareil.
	www.jsd.k12.ak.us /ab/el/Joelle&M (147 words)

	David Sibley - Painted Bunting (5/8)
		Range/Habitat: The Painted Bunting breeding range is divided into western and eastern populations.
		Primary threats are loss and degradation of breeding habitat due to development of swampy thickets and woodland edges, nest parasitism by Brown-headed and Bronzed Cowbirds, and capture by the hundreds every year as cage birds on tropical wintering grounds.
		What TNC is Doing: Wings of the Americas’ Gulf Wings initiative seeks to identify and protect the most important and often overlooked stopover habitats for the more than 260 migratory species, including the Painted Bunting, that make the annual migration journey across or around the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.nature.org /initiatives/programs/birds/sibley/animals/art5629.html (233 words)

	Cardinal (bird) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sexes usually have distinct plumages; the family is named for the red colour (like that of a Catholic cardinal's vestments) of males of the type species, the Northern Cardinal.
		The "buntings" in this family are sometimes generically known as "tropical buntings" (though not all live in the tropics) or "North American buntings" (though there are other buntings in North America) to distinguish them from the true buntings.
		Likewise the grosbeaks in this family are sometimes called "cardinal-grosbeaks" to distinguish them from other grosbeaks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cardinal_(bird) (156 words)

	Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Birds in the News 56 (v2n7)
		The Painted Bunting Observer Team (PBOT) at the University of North Carolina Wilmington is seeking help from volunteers to support a research study in North and South Carolina to develop strategies to sustain and increase the numbers of these brightly colored migratory birds.
		Painted Buntings, Passerina ciris (male, pictured, also at top), arrive in the Carolinas usually in April and stay throughout the summer, migrating south during the month of August.
		I took this Painted Bunting photograph a few months back...it was the first male PABU that I had ever seen, and it was very exciting.
	scienceblogs.com /grrlscientist/2006/05/birds_in_the_news_56_v2n7_1.php (3344 words)

	Painted Bunting Room, Raleigh NC Bed and Breakfast, North Carolina Lodging, Fuquay Inn, Durham, Cary, Fayetteville, ...
		The Painted Bunting Room is a clean white and country green room with mahogany twin beds.
		The room is accented with green, the green colors of the female painted bunting bird.
		An original painting of a pair of painted buntings from Bald Head Island by Malcolm Fleming which accents the room and the other antique, mahogany furniture.
	www.fuquayinn.com /painted-bunting-room.htm (208 words)

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