{"id":2164,"date":"2020-09-19T21:53:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T21:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/?page_id=2164"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:12:24","slug":"indigo-bunting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/montane\/indigo-bunting\/","title":{"rendered":"indigo bunting &#8211; montane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/montane\/\">Longleaf Species &#8211; Montane<\/a><\/h5>\n<h2>Indigo Bunting<\/h2>\n\t<h3>Indigo Bunting<\/h3>\n\n<p><strong>Status: <\/strong>Secure<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Indigo Bunting<\/strong> is a small, sparrow-size bird. Males, especially during mating season, are a brilliant blue while females are more of a tan color. These birds prefer to live and nest in open forest spaces, such as along the edges of a forest, or in areas that have recently burned and are just starting to grow back. These birds feed primarily on seeds, berries, and small insects.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/09\/indigo1.jpg\" alt=\"indigo1\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"800\" width=\"800\" title=\"indigo1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<iframe src='https:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/334319\/embed?simple=1' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' width='340' height='115'><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/09\/Indigo_Bunting_female.jpg\" alt=\"female indigo bunting\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"583\" width=\"750\" title=\"Indigo_Bunting_female\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tfemale indigo bunting\n\t<h3>Habitat &amp; Range<\/h3>\n<p>The indigo bunting can be found throughout eastern North America, and migrate to Central and South America for the winter. These birds depend on brush and grassy areas to create its nest and feed.<\/p>\n<h3>Food Web &amp; Energy Flow<\/h3>\n<p>The indigo bunting mainly eats insects during the spring and summer months, and seeds during the winter, making it a secondary consumer. Predators, including snakes, cats, lizards, raccoons, and other types of birds, are mainly those that can climb and they mostly prey on the eggs of the indigo bunting.<\/p>\n\t<h3>Relationship to Fire<\/h3>\n<p>The indigo bunting is not particularly dependent on fire to maintain its habitat, as they can live in other places as well. But, for birds that have established themselves in longleaf pine forests, regular fires maintain conditions this bird does prefer.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/08\/fire-bog.jpg\" alt=\"fire-bog\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" title=\"fire-bog\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<h3>Conservation Status<\/h3>\n<p>The indigo bunting is considered Secure, and is not considered at risk of going extinct.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/05\/Indigo-Bunting.jpg\" alt=\"Conservation status at the state level. NatureServe Explorer\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"556\" width=\"712\" title=\"Indigo Bunting\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tConservation status at the state level. NatureServe Explorer\n\t<h3><b><strong>Human Impacts\/ Threats<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h3>\n\t\t<h5>Habitat Loss<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/08\/development.jpg\" alt=\"development\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1200\" width=\"1600\" title=\"development\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t<p>Indigo bunting needs open natural space and trees to survive. Clearing this habitat for other uses such as farming or houses is a threat to this bird species.<\/p>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<h3>Hero Journal<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What does it look like?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What does it need to survive?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<strong>Try sketching the species you chose, using scientific drawing techniques.<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/montane\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to Habitat Type\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/longleaf\/explore\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChoose this Species\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2019\/04\/needles-footer.png\" alt=\"needles-footer\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"339\" width=\"1920\" title=\"needles-footer\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longleaf Species &#8211; Montane Indigo Bunting Indigo Bunting Status: Secure The Indigo Bunting is a small, sparrow-size bird. Males, especially during mating season, are a brilliant blue while females are more of a tan color. These birds prefer to live and nest in open forest spaces, such as along the edges of a forest, or [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary cf-quest-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/montane\/indigo-bunting\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":1883,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2164\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}