Indigo buntings range across much of the eastern and southern United States. They are a welcome resident to the scrubland, woodland edges and river corridors of North Dakota, Minnesota and beyond.

The indigo bunting is a sparrow-sized bird at 5.5 inches in length. It is stocky with a short tail and conical bill. The male indigo bunting lives up to its name. During the summer breeding season ...

Indigo buntings have been expanding their range westward for years; when the atlas was published, the species was appearing at the Arizona-California border in force. The westward push, however ...

In this Bird of the Week segment, Stacia Brezinski with the Maine Audubon teaches us about a piece of eye candy known as the ...

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 ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, a Barnum resident, is the author of several books, including “Butterflies of the North Woods,” “Spiders of the North Woods,” “Webwood” and “In a Patch of ...

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 ...