Guide to North American Birds
Family Cardinals, Grosbeaks and Buntings
In dense thickets and woodland edges of Mexico and northern Central America, this dark bunting is fairly common. In our area it is a rare and irregular visitor to far southern Texas, mostly occurring in winter. It has very rarely strayed farther up the Texas coast, once reaching Louisiana.

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Illustration © David Allen Sibley.
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Text © Kenn Kaufman, adapted from
Lives of North American Birds

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Songs and Calls

Call note a hard click or chink. Song a variable warble, sweet but slightly melancholy, swee slee lee.
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