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(Fwd) Painted Bunting in Wake Co.
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: (Fwd) Painted Bunting in Wake Co.
- From: "Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:30:52 -0400
- Priority: normal
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
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From: "Persmark, Magnus E" <emp34157@glaxowellcome.com>
Subject: Painted Bunting in Wake Co.
Date sent: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:23:33 -0400
A colleague, not a birder but generally nature interested, described a bird
she had seen on Monday at her home east of Falls Lake by Horse creek in Wake
county. Her description was approximately as follows: "I noticed a bird I
hadn't seen before, because it was so colorful. It was fat and about the
size of a bluebird or indigo bunting. It had a red breast/stomach with a
bluish head (I thought at first it was a Bluebird), but what really caught
my eye were the green, almost chartreuse, wings." When I brought in a field
guide she confirmed that the bird she had seen was an Painted Bunting. She
could not remember if the bird vocalized.
I realize that this is an unusual observation, but consider both the
description and the individual quite credible.
Magnus Persmark
Chapel Hill, NC
emp34157@glaxowellcome.com
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