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Christine from Ashland on 5/15/2012 12:42:21 PM:
Can someone please tell me what those bright shiny small blue birds are all along the trail? I have been searching the MO Conservation Deptartment website and can't seem to find any similar. And I never see them anywhere else except along the trail, this time of year. Anyone?

 
Anonymous from Ashland on 5/15/2012 2:02:00 PM:
Christine, they are indigo buntings. I noticed them a few years ago between Hartsburg and Claysville, seems they were a lot brighter blue then, it may change with the year/season.

 
Jim from St. Louis on 5/15/2012 5:36:25 PM:
That is correct. There were a lot of them last week just east of Defiance.

 
marcia from sewanee, tn on 5/15/2012 9:27:38 PM:
We saw well over 100 of them last week, the whole length of the trail.

 
Anonymous from High Ridge on 5/17/2012 12:09:47 PM:
Blue Buntings