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 ...

A reader called excitedly to say, "I have a gorgeous little bird with a deep blue color on my feeder, but it's not as big as a regular bluebird. What is it?" I knew that a "regular" bluebird would ...

For instance, the Unicoi County Summer Bird Count found a total of 141 indigo buntings while the Elizabethton Summer Bird Count tallied 82 of these little blue beauties. Both of these Northeast ...

If you see a staggeringly electric blue songbird, it just might be a male indigo bunting. The female however is a drab brownish tan. Indigo bunting songs change every couple miles, with males learning ...

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 ...

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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 ...