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.

Feeding Behavior & Diet: Forages mostly on the ground. Also does some foraging up in shrubs and low trees. During migration, may forage in mixed flocks with Indigo Buntings. They eat mostly seeds and insects. Reported to feed mainly on seeds, primarily those of grasses and weeds; sometimes eats berries and fruits. Also eats many insects, including beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers, flies, and others. Probably eats more insects in early summer, and feeds them to its young.