Indigo Bunting
Passerina cyanea
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Call and song
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About the Indigo Bunting
Breeding males 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. Winters mainly in Middle America and the Caribbean, where it frequently gathers in flocks in weedy fields. Females can be very difficult to distinguish from Lazuli Bunting, although their range doesn't overlap much. Indigo usually shows more streaking on the underparts; also note fainter wingbars, duller breast, and more contrasting whitish throat.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 41 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Finland
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Iceland
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Montserrat
- Nicaragua
- Norway
- Panama
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Sint Maarten
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
