Varied Bunting Sounds

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Arizona, May 22, 2009Recorded by Andrew Spencer | Macaulay Library
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Arizona, July 03, 2020Recorded by Ryan O'Donnell | Macaulay Library
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Arizona, May 13, 1987Recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller | Macaulay Library
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Texas, May 17, 2009Recorded by Andrew Spencer
Flight calls
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Sonora, June 28, 2010Recorded by Nathan Pieplow

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Songs

Males sing a song that can recall a Painted Bunting or Blue Grosbeak (or sometimes House Finch): a jumbled series of variably sweet and scratchy notes that rises and falls pleasantly.

Calls

A flat spit is the most commonly heard call from perched birds, while flying birds give very short, buzzy calls that sound similar to the flight call of Indigo Bunting.

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Painted Bunting

Lazuli Bunting

Indigo Bunting

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Species in This Family

Cardinals and Allies(Order: Passeriformes, Family: Cardinalidae)

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