Bird field guideBird identification [A-B]
Albatross, Black-footed bird pictures
Albatross, Laysan bird pictures
Albatross, Short-tailed bird pictures
Albatross, Sooty bird pictures
Albatross, Yellow-nosed bird pictures
Ani, Groove-billed bird pictures
Auklet, Cassin bird pictures
Auklet, Crested bird pictures
Auklet, Least bird pictures
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Auklet, Whiskered bird pictures
Avocet bird pictures
Baldpate bird pictures
Bittern bird pictures
Bittern, Least bird pictures
Blackbird, Brewer bird picture
Blackbird, Red-Winged bird pictures
Blackbird, Rusty bird pictures
Blackbird, Yellow-Headed bird pictures
Blue-bill bird pictures
Bobolink bird pictures
Brant, Black bird pictures
Budgie (Budgerigar) bird pictures
Buffle-head bird pictures
Bunting, Indigo bird pictures
Bunting, Lark bird pictures
Bunting, Lazuli bird pictures
Bunting, Painted bird pictures
Bunting, Varied bird pictures<
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Bird watching diary
Bunting, Varied bird pictures
VARIED BUNTING600. Passerina versicolor. 5 1/2 inches
This beautiful species is less common than any others of the genus and has a very restricted range in the United States.
The plumage of the male birds varies a great deal; that shown in the accompanying illustration is from a brightly colored specimen. They will average duller than this.
These birds frequent thickets or brush-studded pasture land.
Their song is described as weaker than that of the Indigo Bunting, but having much of the same character.
Nest. - Built of grasses, bark, and fine rootlets; a cup-shaped structure placed in forks of bushes, usually in tangled thickets. The three or four eggs cannot be distinguished from those of the last species.
Range. - The Lower Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas.
A sub-species (pulchra) is also found in Lower California and southern Arizona.