A rare-for-North Carolina bird first spotted last year at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh apparently is making an encore appearance. The portrait Karp shared shows the bird’s fluffy ruby underside amid ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – The bird of the week for this week is the painted bunting. Here is how the Cornell Lab of Ornithology describes the bird: With their vivid fusion of blue, green, yellow, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a young man, I never gave the bird population much thought unless you’re referring to the British slang definition. As I grew older and curious about my surrounding world, wildlife seized center ...