Painted Bunting singing (Passerina ciris) North America. | BIRDS & Nature

🎨🖌️ Let’s brush up on a backyard beaut, the Painted Bunting! 🌈 This bird doesn’t just show up… they show off. Known as siete colores (“seven colors”) in Mexico, and nonpareil (French for “without equal”) in Louisiana, the Painted Bunting lives up to every name. Adult males look like flying art projects, while females glow in soft lemon-yellow and yellow-green. Painted Buntings stick to thickets, shrubby edges, and overgrown fields, where they mostly dine on seeds — until breeding season, when