Painted Finch

Title

Painted Finch

Rights

National Audubon Society, Fair Use. Courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Creator

John James Audubon (1785-1851)

Date

c. 1827-1838

Description

Five Painted Buntings are perched on a snipping of a fruit branch. Two are females with green and yellow coloring, one is a juvenile male with green back feathers, yellow stomach feathers, and blue head feathers, and two are mature males with red rump and stomach feathers, blue head feathers, yellow and green back and wing feathers, and brow flight and tail feathers. The mature males are chirping at each other and one of the females and the juvenile male are grooming one of the mature males.

Format

Watercolor print. 39.5 x 28.5 in.

Publisher

National Audubon Society

Contributor

Elliot Foran

Identifier

Birds of America, Plate 53

Subject

painted finch; Painted Finch; painted bunting; Painted Bunting; painted buntings; Painted Buntings; finch; Finch; bunting; Bunting; finches; Finches; Southern Region; Central Region; southern region; South; south; central region; sexual dimorphism.

Source

Jpg file. National Audubon Society. 10/17/2023.

https://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america/painted-finch