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Indigo Buntings are actually black; the diffraction of light through their feathers makes them look blue. This explains why males can appear many shades from turquoise to black
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Breeding males of Indigo Bunting
(Passerina cyanea) are entirely blue with a slightly darker head. Females are plain brown with a whitish throat, bluish tail, and faint streaks on the underparts. Breeds in shrubby areas at the edge of forests and fields. Males often sing from a high exposed perch.
A breeding male Indigo Bunting is blue all over, with slightly richer blue on his head and a shiny, silver-gray bill. Females are basically brown, with faint streaking on the breast, a whitish throat, and sometimes a touch of blue on the wings, tail, or rump. Immature males are patchy blue and brown.
The wonderful indigo bell shaped flowers of the Jacaranda Tree.
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Wikipedia: The indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) is a small seed-eating bird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae. It is migratory, ranging from southern Canada to northern Florida during the breeding season, and from southern Florida to northern South America during the winter. It often migrates by night, using the stars to navigate. Its habitat is farmland, brush areas, and open woodland. The indigo bunting is closely related to the lazuli bunting and interbreeds with the species where their ranges overlap.
It has occurred as a vagrant in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Denmark, Ecuador, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Serbia and the United Kingdom.
Conservation status: Least Concern
An Indigo Bunting in my friends backyard. She has it beautifully staged to take photos of some fantastic birds.
Morning at the refuge continues. One of the reasons we made the three hour round trip to Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge on that mid-summer morning, was a report of Indigo Bunting sightings.
Sure enough, they were there. They weren't very photo friendly though and this is the only decent shot I was able to make. It leaves a lot to be desired in quality but I decided to post it anyway.
Indigo Bunting ~ (Passerina cyanea)
I birded Fort DeSoto yesterday afternoon. There were far fewer migrants compared to last weekend's bonanza - but I was able to find a few gems such as this Indigo Bunting.
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INDIGO is my most recent photo-book: shot between August and September 2018, it consists of 20 new original pictures, in black and white and colors.
So here is another excuse not to be in any hasty hurry to cut the grass! This little Indigo Bunting is most likely passing through in migration but here he is eating the tiny little grass seeds. :D I do wish he and the misses would stay but they never do, only staying a week or so to refuel.
This afternoon I was able to make a brief visit to the Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary and was pleased to find a handful of migrant songbirds gobbling up anything they could find to eat. This Indigo Bunting was the greeting committee, eating corn from the trail near the entrance of the sanctuary. That blue is really something special.
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Passerina cyanea
Mr. & Ms. Bunting were in the meadow observing flight practice by their two offspring. They split up with Mom taking one away and Dad staying with the other.
Lowell, MI
Wikipedia: The indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) is a small seed-eating bird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae. It is migratory, ranging from southern Canada to northern Florida during the breeding season, and from southern Florida to northern South America during the winter. It often migrates by night, using the stars to navigate. Its habitat is farmland, brush areas, and open woodland. The indigo bunting is closely related to the lazuli bunting and interbreeds with the species where their ranges overlap.
Conservation status: Least Concern