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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A male Painted Bunting, sporting colors that must be seen to be believed, has been hanging around in Potomac, just south of the Great Falls Tavern, causing quite a stir. Word spread via listservs and ...

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 ...

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 ...