The painted bunting is a small bird with rainbow-colored feathers. It is typically seen along the coast, and for whatever reason, it has decided to come back to Dix Park repeatedly since 2022.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare-for-North Carolina bird first spotted last year at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh apparently is making an encore appearance.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Raleigh birding community will toss their binoculars into the car at the drop of a sun hat for a two-hour drive to ...

Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris): colorful, unmistakable. That’s exactly how one of my Costa Rica bird books describes the painted bunting in the little blurb next to the color photos, and I think ...

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