The late Roger Tory Peterson called the Painted Bunting the most gaudily colored North American songbird. Obviously he was refering to the male of the species.

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Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris)

Painted Bunting

East St. Louis, St. Clair County, 7/12/03
Photograph by Travis Mahan

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