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Lazuli bunting Passerina amoena
Identification Tips:
Length: 4.5 inches
Small, conical bill
White wing bars ...

Lazuli Bunting ( Passerina amoena )
Lazuli Bunting, Cabin Lake Viewing Blinds, Deschutes National Forest, Near Fort Rock, Oregon
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details) ...

Lazuli Bunting
Passerina amoena
The Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) is a summer resident across a wide area of the western United States and south west Canada. The species winters in Mexico.

Lazuli Buntings breed in western North America from southern British Columbia west to southern Saskatchewan, southward to California and east to New Mexico.

Lazuli Bunting
Adult male
Similar to adult male Eastern Bluebird
White wingbars
Thicker bill
Smaller, slimmer, more elongated body
© Stephen Ehninger ...

7. Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
The male Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) sings from a perch. The words go something like this:
"You think the sky is blue? Look at my head silly, look! Now you know what blue is!" ...

Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Pheucticus ludovicianus
Black-headed Grosbeak - Pheucticus melanocephalus
Lazuli Bunting - Passerina amoena
Indigo Bunting - Passerina cyanea
Painted Bunting - Passerina ciris
Dickcissel - Spiza americana ...

blue; the painted bunting, or nonpareil (Passerina ciris), with showy red, blue, and green plumage; the hardy snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), whose winter plumage is white marked with light brown on the head and sides; and the lazuli bunting of ...

With really good luck, you may see a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, a Lazuli Bunting, an American Goldfinch or a Little Blue Heron.

light as a rich, metallic blue; the painted bunting or nonpareil, with the snowy red and, blue and green plumage ; the hardy snow bunting, whose winter plumage is white marked with light brown on the head and and sides; and the lazuli bunting of the ...

Other Painted buntings are part of a genus including the gorgeous blue indigo and lazuli buntings. The Greek myth of Scylla who turned into the bird keiris, inspired the name ceris for the beautiful painted bunting.

See also: Indigo Bunting, Grosbeak, Painted bunting, Finch, Blue grosbeak