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indigo bunting
noun
a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
indigo bunting
noun
a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is bright blue and the female brown
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of indigo bunting1
Example Sentences
Among the other types of birds were also soras, indigo buntings and wood thrushes.
Blue jays, eastern bluebirds, and indigo buntings are all blue birds, but the rich azure of an indigo bunting is nothing like the softer, sky blue of a jay.
The rose-breasted grosbeak is there too, and the red-eyed vireo, and the indigo bunting.
The researchers spotted birds in the severely burned patches that they didn’t find in the unburned ones, including the indigo bunting, chestnut-sided warbler and eastern towhee.
Butterflies floated over stalks of milkweed, and an indigo bunting piped from a treetop at the edge of a ragged field.
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