Indigo Bunting Images, Facts and Information:
Passerina cyanea
- Indigo Buntings are small, migratory birds. Males are a brilliant blue with a darker crown. Their plumage is actually black but the diffraction of light through their feathers makes them appear blue. Females and juveniles are brown with blurred wing bars, streaked breasts and bellies and they have tinges of blue on their shoulders and tails.
- Indigo Buntings breed from southeastern Saskatchewan east to New Brunswick south to central Arizona, Texas, the Gulf Coast and Florida. Indigo Buntings spend winters in southern Florida and the tropics.
- Indigo Buntings prefer habitats that include brushy slopes, pastures, fields grown to scrub, woodland clearings and forest edges.
- Indigo Buntings feed on seeds, forbs, buds, berries, and insects.
- Indigo Buntings lay 3 to 4 eggs which hatch in 12 to 14 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of buntings can be called a “decoration” or “mural” of buntings.
- Indigo Buntings live to be about 10 years old.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Indigo Bunting photos.
Female or possible immature male Indigo Bunting on a log
Title: Female or possible immature male Indigo Bunting on a log
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 7/10/2024
Perched male Indigo Bunting in the shadows
Title: Perched male Indigo Bunting in the shadows
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Johnston County, Oklahoma
Date: 6/6/2024
Indigo Bunting male perched on a wild grapevine
Title: Indigo Bunting male perched on a wild grapevine
Location: Sebastian County, Arkansas
Date: 4/30/2024
Male Indigo Bunting singing on a wild grapevine
Title: Male Indigo Bunting singing on a wild grapevine
Location: Sebastian County, Arkansas
Date: 4/30/2024
Male Indigo Bunting near the Arkansas River
Title: Male Indigo Bunting near the Arkansas River
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/19/2023
Male Indigo Bunting next to the auto tour route at Sequoyah NWR
Title: Male Indigo Bunting next to the auto tour route at Sequoyah NWR
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/19/2023
Singing male Indigo Bunting at Sequoyah NWR
Title: Singing male Indigo Bunting at Sequoyah NWR
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/19/2023
Singing male Indigo Bunting in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Singing male Indigo Bunting in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022 […]
Indigo Bunting male feeding on grass seeds
Title: Indigo Bunting male feeding on grass seeds
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022 […]