I truly hope they still exist. Magnificent birds. My bucket list was added to recently when I got to see a Painted Bunting at my sister’s place in the Texas Hill Country. Beautiful birds.
Painted Bunting is on my bucket list of “wish to see” birds. The photos of them that I’ve seen are beautiful.
Every now and again in the summer I get to see an Indigo Bunting, though I think he should be called a Turquoise or Aqua Bunting because the blue is more like those than indigo, IMHO.
A neighbor who grew up in this town said that when she was a little girl, they were all over the park near where we live. Now they are harder to find.