Rainbow Birds Perfectly Match Their Name With Their Amazing Feathers

Painted Bunting ( Passerina ciris) known as rainbow bird is one of the many beautiful birds on our planet with their vivid fusion of blue, green,yellow, and red, male Painted Buntings seem to have flown straight out of a child’s coloring book. Females and immatures are a distinctive bright green with a pale eyering.

This little bird in the picture makes his home in Mexico and the Southern America. They usually like to spend time foraging for seed in the low and dense bushes. Migration season takes them closer to the Gulf Coast on their way to Mexico to spend the winter. Rainbow Birds surveys show declining numbers in recent decades. Nests are frequently parasitized by cowbirds. Often captured and kept as a cagebird on wintering grounds in tropics.