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Blue Bunting

Cyanocompsa parellina

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.
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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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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