#1059 · 🐦 birds

Indigo Bunting

🇳🇱 Indigogors ·Passerina cyanea

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The indigo bunting ( Passerina cyanea ) is a small seed-eating bird in the family Cardinalidae or cardinal. It is migratory, ranging from southern Canada to northern Florida during the breeding season, and from southern Florida to northern South America during the winter. It often migrates by night, using the stars to navigate. Its habitat is farmland, brush areas, and open woodland. The indigo bunting is closely related to the lazuli bunting and interbreeds with the species where...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 61,543iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
61,543 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).