The indigo bunting is a sparrow-sized bird at 5.5 inches in length. It is stocky with a short tail and conical bill. The male indigo bunting lives up to its name. During the summer breeding season it ...

The indigo bunting is one of the reasons spring is such a wonderful time of the year to watch the visitors to feeders. This small songbird likes to reside in the boundary region where forests and ...

A male and female Indigo Bunting have just landed on my feeder. Is there a particular food I should give them? Will they be around all summer? –Amy, Orleans, MA You win, Amy, As I was finishing up ...

A regular happening with songbirds in spring is that they will live up to their names and sing when arriving back from migration. Most of these migrants that nest in the Northland come back from ...

The indigo bunting usually returns to the region in April and lingers into early October. Indigo buntings are also fond of visiting feeders for offerings of millet or sunflower seed. Besides indigo ...

Stephen Head, president of Lone Star College-North Harris, asked me not long ago what the sparrow-size, aqua-blue birds were that had shown up in his yard. He wasn't the only one who wanted to know.

The indigo bunting perching in sunlight is like a sapphire with wings. Glistening intensely blue, it is a gem of a bird. A bird watcher’s attention is first drawn to the bird by its distinctive song, ...

Schoolchildren laugh when my friend Susan Jones describes the song of the indigo bunting. But they never forget it. During spring and summer, the cheerful indigo bunting is one of our most ...

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 male Indigo ...

First-year, but not adult, Indigo Buntings (Passerina cyanea) have a previously unknown supplemental plumage. The presupplemental molt includes all of the rectrices, the outermost but not the ...

A. There are a variety of foods you can offer orioles, and I have had success with cut-up oranges. Although I have never tried the following, they may work: I have read peaches, berries and bananas, ...