#Passerina cyanea

[geopsych]

Indigo bunting singing. I took video but it is awful. For some reason I couldn’t keep my hands steady. So this is all I have to offer.

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Indigo Bunting

Photo: Kelly Colgan Azar

"In parts of the East, Indigo Bunting may be the most abundant songbird, with the deep-blue males singing along every roadside. The plain brown females are seen far less often, and they have good reason to be inconspicuous: they do almost all the work of caring for the eggs and young, hidden away in dense thickets. This species favors brushy edges rather than unbroken forest, and is probably far more common today than when the Pilgrims landed."

- Audubon Field Guide

[occasionallybirds]

Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)

June 28, 2022

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[birdblues]

Indigo Bunting

[sitting-on-me-bum]

2013-08-18 Rollins Savanna 2 by JanetandPhil Via Flickr: Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) - Rollins Savanna, Lake County Forest Preserve District, near Grayslake, IL - 18 August 2013

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[herpsandbirds]

Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea), male, family Cardinalidae, order Passeriformes, MI, USA

photograph by Joe Povenz

[everydayesterday]

Indigo Bunting.  (Passerina cyanea, juvenile)  taken at Smith Oaks Sanctuary, High Island, Texas, April 2015.  

photo by frank schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0 via wikimedia commons.

[mutant-distraction]

The indigo bunting (juvenile) (Passerina

cyanea) is a small seed-eating bird in the

cardinal family, Cardinalidae.

Photo Courtesy of Brenda Bright Alvarez

April /2021.

[geopsych]

Pictures of a couple indigo buntings I saw today. I have no idea why the second one has a white V on his chest.

[amnhnyc]

Say “hi” to the Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)! Like other similar-hued birds, it doesn’t have a true blue pigment. Rather, its feathers refract blue light. (Only males come in shades of blue, while females are brown). The Indigo Bunting has a wide range and can be spotted across North America, down through Central and South America, and even into parts of the Caribbean! It prefers brushy habitats near the edge of a forest, where it snacks on seeds and insects. Photo: Shenandoah National Park, Public Domain Mark 1.0, flickr #AnimalFacts #IndigoBunting #indigo #BirdFacts #birds #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/CdelxYnLT-k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[uwmspeccoll]

The Feathursday Blues

Summer is coming to a close and our academic year is about to begin, so we’re feeling a bit blue about leaving summer behind, but we’re also excited about the new school year. So, this week we bring you some cheery chromolithographic birds of blue to begin our September. Unfortunately, those lovely little thrushes, the Bluebirds (Genus: Sialia), are not included here, but we think these blue fellows will do. They are, from top to bottom:

Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris).

Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena).

Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea), male and female.

Blue Grosbeak (Passerina caerulea).

This chromolithograph is from a painting by the noted German wildlife artist Gustav Mützel, found in our 2-volume set of Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty, by the late-19th-century director of the Milwaukee Public Museum Henry Nehrling, and published in Milwaukee by George Brumder from 1893-1896.

View more posts from Nehrling’s Our Native Birds.

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[birdblues]

Indigo Bunting

[swede1952]

What's bluer than a bluebird?

This is an indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea), many of these birds were around during early spring.

[ceekbee]

Lazuli Bunting (Passerina cyanea) This is an approximately life-size painting, done in acrylics, of a bird species native to much of western North America, from Southern Canada deep into Mexico.

By Barry Kent Mackay

[fischotterkunst]

Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea). I tried all season to get nicer photos than this to no avail, with the bird showing up only when I was otherwise occupied without my camera ready.

5/10/23