Indigo Bunting Images

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.

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