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.

Eggs: 3-4, sometimes 5. Whitish to bluish white or pale gray, with reddish brown spots often concentrated at larger end. Incubation is by female only, 11-12 days. Young: Nestlings are fed by the female. Young leave the nest about 12-14 days after hatching, and male may take over feeding them if female begins second nesting attempt. 2 broods per year, sometimes 3, perhaps rarely 4.