Indigo Bunting

There are not too many predominantly blue-colored birds in the Alabama woods: blue jays, eastern bluebirds, blue grosbeaks, cerulean warblers and indigo buntings are about it. Several others wear some blue, like common grackles, rock pigeons and a number of swallows, and some birds are kind of blue-gray, like great blue herons, belted kingfishers and red-breasted nuthatches. There are even some violet-blue birds out there like purple martins and purple gallinules.

But true blue – you can count them on one hand. And one of the bluest is the male indigo bunting during the spring and summer breeding season.