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 ...

Visually, call it the last kiss of summer: A bright male indigo bunting singing his heart out on a fully blooming sunflower. It won’t be too long before the indigo buntings migrate south, flying about ...

The first time I saw an indigo bunting was right after college. While on a road trip to the West Coast we came upon a flock in a hedge along a rural roadside in western Pennsylvania. Now, 30 years ...

An indigo bunting chirps at the Washington Works Nature Trails recently. The park along Dupont Road is home to a wide variety of wildlife and plants. If you have a recent photo that showcases the ...

These last couple of weeks, no bird has made itself known to me more than the indigo bunting, a sparrow-sized songbird that, true to its name, is vivid indigo in color. Well, at least the males; the ...

We studied the effects of breeding stage and behavioral context on the singing behavior of male Indigo Buntings (Passerina cyanea; n = 15) during the 2004 breeding season in Madison County, Kentucky, ...

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 ...

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 ...