As a few green shoots popped up in intertidal meadows and along the beach fringes in the middle of March, a welcome avian harbinger of spring arrived: a small flock of snow buntings foraged among the ...

What Does a Male and Female Painted Bunting Look Like? Bright, bold and adorned in rainbow hues, a painted bunting is always a stunner. Identifying a male painted bunting is a snap. No other bird ...

These birds are a veritable rainbow, and you might be able to find them in Alabama this summer. But you’ll need to be sneaky because despite their brilliant colors, painted buntings tend to be ...

With uncanny precision, the northern hemisphere’s migratory birds fly south in the fall and north in the spring—often to targets that are continents or even oceans away. One theory holds that some ...

Among the more spectacular songbirds making their way southward through southern New Mexico in late August and early September is a trio of colorful buntings. Both indigo buntings and painted buntings ...