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In this Bird of the Week segment, Stacia Brezinski with the Maine Audubon teaches us about a piece of eye candy known as the ...
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How to Identify a Painted Bunting
A painted bunting sports a rainbow of colors. Learn what males and females look like, what they eat, and what they sound like.
There is nothing like the royal blue of an indigo bunting. In the Northeast, they arrive fashionably late to the spring fling, behind the vanguard of migrating warblers and other songbirds. On my ...
The pond in Phil Swanson's backyard is mostly shallow to attract birds in Papillion on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Phil Swanson ...
MANTEO, N.C. (WNCT) — An Indigo Bunting bird was spotted at the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, potentially traveling over 1,200 miles. According to a press release, “this mal… ...
From bald eagles to indigo buntings, this county park near Raleigh has some of the best birdwatching in North Carolina.
The painted bunting’s call note and flight note are very similar to their indigo cousins’ as well. All of this makes finding painted buntings out in the wild more challenging.
Sometimes lazuli and indigo buntings hybridize on the Great Plains, producing intermediates, the Audubon Society says. Usually, lazuli buntings live in open brush and streamside shrubs.