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Varied Bunting

Passerina versicolor

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) alyssamagliaro, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.

United States	47,730
Texas	10,001
Mexico	2,596
New Mexico	653
Arizona	637
Jalisco	532
Nuevo Leon	479
Sinaloa	293
Canada	188
Ontario	188

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Dietary

OmnivoreFeeds on both plants and animalsBIRDBASE avian traits database

Group and habits

Cup nestingListed by a harvested source as building cup nests.BIRDBASE avian traits database
Shrub nestingListed by a harvested source as nesting in shrubs.BIRDBASE avian traits database
Brood-parasite hostListed by a harvested source as a host of brood parasites.BIRDBASE avian traits database

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Birds · Aves
Order	Perching Birds · Passeriformes
Family	Cardinals and Allies · Cardinalidae
Genus	North American Buntings · Passerina

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: BIRDBASE avian traits database (CC BY 4.0)
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Varied Bunting with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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