I've been thinking about blue birds lately. Not just eastern bluebirds, but all four of the mostly blue birds we have in North Carolina. Just as I can't assume they are talking about northern ...

The indigo bunting is the only solid blue bird in the eastern United States, but it’s all an illusion — literally a trick of the light. The indigo bunting’s feathers are not really blue; the male’s ...

An immature-plumaged blue grosbeak was seen among a flock of over 50 indigo buntings at Morrill’s Farm in Penacook on Aug. 17.These adult birds have enormous silver bills and beautiful blue ...

A flock of sparrow-size birds in stunningly violet-blue plumage could soon be blanketing your yard or maybe already have. The handsome birds are indigo buntings arriving from winter homes in South ...

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 ...

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much of a show. Among the peacock, the toucan, and the macaw, there’s a ...

The ring-necked pheasant, an introduced species that has declined from its peak population in Pennsylvania in the 1970s to only a couple heavily managed pockets today, is one of the few birds that ...

Texans from the Rio Grande Valley to the Hill Country and into the Panhandle had the unexpected thrill of seeing migrating lazuli buntings in their yards and fields during late April. The name lazuli ...