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 ...

One of North America’s most gorgeous birds, aglow in the outrageous color combination of red, blue and yellow-green, has showed up at a bird feeder in O’Hara Township — a rarity for Pennsylvania.

It was my pleasure to be the guest speaker at the Brainerd Lakes Area Audubon meeting in April. Prior to my presentation, John Richardson shared a story of a phone call he received just a few days ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peering through a pair of binoculars, I frantically scan through dense clumps of brown grasses and ferns covering the floor of Prospect Park. Around 20 people crowd around me, all of whom are doing ...

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 ...