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What kind of bird is that little one with the blue head and green wings with the colored beads on his leg?

 

They are painted buntings and the beads are bands. My home is one of the sites they have banded at since starting the program. It's really interesting watching the PBOT people capture, band and record their data such as age, gender, weight, and health. To weigh these birds, the banders put them upside down in a film canister and then place it on a digital scale. I have a pic of that somewhere that I'll post up. They are quite striking and are captured for the cage market in Central America.

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