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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial Pictures of male and female painted buntings
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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial
Painted Buntings

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.

For more information on Kingsley Plantation, click here.

Contact: Roger Clark, Park Ranger (904) 251-3537, roger_clark@nps.gov

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Inside Fort Caroline

Did You Know?
Fort Caroline National Memorial was the site of the first conflict between Europeans over land that is now part of the Continental United States.
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Last Updated: May 26, 2011 at 06:56 MST