Bird House keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo are celebrating the hatching of two indigo bunting chicks—a first for the Zoo and the North American population in human care. The female indigo ...

It's easy to see why poachers would target the colorful painted bunting. Painted and indigo buntings are under attack on their wintering grounds in southern Florida, islands in the Caribbean and ...

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 ...

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 ...