Painted Buntings
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Painted Bunting males begin to arrive in the Timucuan Preserve in mid-April. The best time to see the buntings is in May and one of the best places to see buntings is at Kingsley Plantation, on Fort George Island. Report on the Third Annual Painted Bunting Walk at Kingsley Plantation (4/30/05) Click here to find out what was seen on the walk! The public was invited on a ranger-guided walk to observe one of the world's most beautiful birds, the Painted Bunting, at Kingsley Plantation on Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 8:00 a.m. Timucuan Preserve Park Ranger and bird expert Roger Clark led the walk. Painted bunting photographs courtesy of Paul Sykes, USGS. For more information about painted buntings, click here. |
Did You Know?
One of the Huguenot inhabitants of la Caroline had the surname of "DuVal.” Jacksonville, Florida, where the national memorial is located, is within Duval County which is named for Florida's first civilian
territorial governor, William Pope Duval, a Huguenot descendant.
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