Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Varied Bunting
Passerina versicolor
- tidak umum
- 40 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Purple, plum, and crimson all at once, like a sunset got loose. Hides in Mexican border-country thornscrub.
- Populasi
- Not precisely quantified; described qualitatively as fairly common within a restricted range
- Habitat
- Desert thorn forest, thorny brush thickets, stream thickets, scrubby woodlands, and overgrown clearings, typically foraging low in dense vegetation and nesting near water
- Fakta menarik
- Breeding male Varied Buntings can look nearly plain blackish in shadow but flash a mosaic of plum, crimson, and lavender-violet in good light (with a bright red nape that browns by fall), and females lay unusually variable bluish-white to bluish-green eggs.
- Sebaran
- Southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas (breeding barely crosses the US border) south through Mexico to Oaxaca, with disjunct populations in Chiapas, Mexico, and southeastern Guatemala
- Makanan
- Primarily insects gleaned by foraging low in dense vegetation (twitching tail/wings to flush prey), supplemented with seeds and fruit
- Ukuran
- 0,13 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,21 m
- Masa hidup
- 3 tahun
