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| Description
Author: Derek Palmer |
Breeds from southeastern New Mexico and southern Missouri south to southern Alabama and into Mexico. It will also breed along the Atlantic Coast from southeastern North Carolina south to central Florida. The Painted Bunting winters in southeastern Texas, central Florida, the Bahamas, and Cuba south through Mexico to Panama (DeGraaf, 1995). The range has appeared to diminish in the Southwest. It has become a rare occasion to observe a Painted Bunting in places where it was once considered to be fairly common to see one. The populations along the Atlantic Coast have been expanding their range northward and westward in the Carolinas. The only drawback is that these specimens which have been observed in the expanded range are nonbreeders (Lowther, 1999). |