A painted bunting sports a jaw-dropping rainbow of colors. Learn what the male and female looks like, what the bird eats and ...

Bartram's Garden is unexpectedly becoming a favorite winter stopover for painted buntings. Why it matters: This Southern beauty is a rarity for this region during the colder months but a real treat ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest edition of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's conservation license plate features a stunning image of a ...

Members of the Raleigh birding community will toss their binoculars into the car at the drop of a sun hat for a two-hour drive to catch a glimpse of a rare specimen on their lifer list. So as word got ...

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 ...

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 ...

The painted bunting usually calls the southern U.S. home and travels south at this time of year, but one decided to spend its Christmas holidays up north in Bayfield, N.B. Alain Clavette, a birder for ...

While visiting family on the South Carolina coast last weekend, my wife, Laura, and I decided to do some birding at the beautiful Botany Bay Wildlife Management Area on Edisto Island near Charleston.