Indigo Bunting
Passerina cyanea
The adult indigo bunting lives in brushy fields, forest edges, roadsides, and regenerating clearings across eastern and central North America. It feeds mainly on seeds and insects, often picking food from grasses, shrubs, and low branches. Males sing persistently from exposed perches during the breeding season, while females remain brown and well hidden around nest sites. The male’s vivid blue color is produced by feather structure scattering light, not by blue pigment.
- Type
- Wing
- Conservation status
- LC
Growth chain
- ?
- Indigo Bunting