
Painted Bunting

by Dawn Currie
Title
Painted Bunting
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
From Florida Birds Collection by artist Dawn Currie. Male Painted Bunting photographed in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida.
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A stunning Painted Bunting found near the Visitor Center at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Titusville Florida.
With their vivid fusion of blue, green, yellow, and red, male Painted Buntings (Passerina ciris) seem to have flown straight out of a child's coloring book. Females and immatures are a distinctive bright green with a pale eye ring. These fairly common finches breed in the coastal Southeast and in the south-central U.S., where they often come to feeders.
Unfortunately, it's easy to trap colorful male Painted Buntings by tricking them into attacking decoys. In 1841 John James Audubon reported that 'thousands' of the colorful birds were caught every spring and shipped from New Orleans to Europe, where they fetched more than 100 times the price when sold as cage birds. They are still trapped and sold in large numbers in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and to a lesser extent in Florida, despite efforts by conservationists to to curb illegal trade.
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May 8th, 2014
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Comments (79)

Don Columbus
Congratulations Dawn, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings" I invite you to place it in the group's "2019 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet

Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p

Hanne Lore Koehler
Magnificent capture of this beautiful bird, Dawn! Congratulations on your All Stars Retweet feature! L/F

Sharon Duguay
Congrats on your All Stars Retweet feature Dawn, such a crisp clear capture & digital work L/F/T

William Tasker
Oh Dawn!! This is just perfect! Special... Your beautiful image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World L/F

Dave Files
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Nature and Landscape Photography!"