Lazuli Bunting - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo © by richard bledsoe
Mission Dam, San Diego, California, 26 June 2003

Passerina amoena

Identification

L. 13-14 cm (5-5½ in).
Male

• Blue head and back
• White wingbars and belly
• Rusty breast
  

Female: brown and grey

Distribution

Western North America north to British Columbia, south to Mexico, and east to western North Dakota, state of Colorado, and western Texas.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Habitat

Grassland with scattered brush and tall trees.

Behaviour

Female
Photo © by Larry D. Smith
Bisbee, Arizona, 11 October 2007

Diet

Includes seeds and insects.

Breeding

It makes a loose cup nest of grasses and rootlets placed in a bush. 3-4 pale blue eggs are laid.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Greene, E., V. R. Muehter, and W. Davison (2020). Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.lazbun.01
3. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 2019. Lazuli_Bunting in: All About Birds. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/ Accessed on 15June 2020

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Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Lazuli Bunting. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 11 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Lazuli_Bunting

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