The painted bunting usually calls the southern U.S. home and travels south at this time of year, but one decided to spend its ...

Bob Karp waited nearly three hours through a hot August Sunday for a glimpse of the painted bunting — sometimes called the most gorgeous bird in North America, with its feathers flashing red, green ...

What Do Male and Female Painted Buntings Look Like? You probably recognize common feeder birds by color. Red? Cardinal. Blue? Blue jay. Yellow? Goldfinch. But when all of those colors and more are on ...

The number of painted bunting birds has been declining for some years. Now, citizen scientists across the U.S. are helping track and gather more info to support the species. WUSF's Kerry Sheridan ...

Philadelphia's birding community is getting a rare glimpse of a painted bunting that's made a home in and around Bartram's Garden this winter. The species is part of the cardinal family and natively ...

If I have said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: nature is always changing. For some reason we people always think that everything stays the same. But when it comes to nature, it is never the ...

It was my pleasure to be the guest speaker at the Brainerd Lakes Area Audubon meeting in April. Prior to my presentation, John Richardson shared a story of a phone call he received just a few days ...

Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris): colorful, unmistakable. That’s exactly how one of my Costa Rica bird books describes the painted bunting in the little blurb next to the color photos, and I think ...

MANKATO — “He’s not in Kansas, Toto” is likely what savvy and lucky birdwatchers said to their dogs while walking along Red Jacket Trail recently. That trail was one of the locations for a handful of ...

A single Painted Bunting photographed in Dorothea Dix Park in May 2023. The bird also made a rare appearance in the Raleigh, NC park last summer, drawing hundreds of birders from around the state to ...