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Lazuli Bunting

Passerina amoenaOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Cardinals and Grosbeaks (Cardinalidae)
Codes: Common Name: LAZB Scientific Name: PASAMO ITIS Taxonomic No.: 179151
Least Concern
 
Lazuli Bunting
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Overview

Lazuli Bunting: Small finch, bright blue upperparts, cinnamon-brown breast and sides, white belly. Dark wings with white wing bar. Forages on ground, low in trees and bushes. Eats seeds, insects, caterpillars. Short flights, alternates rapid wing beats with brief periods of wings pulled to sides.

Range and Habitat

Lazuli Bunting: Breeds from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and North Dakota south through western U.S. to southern California, northern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, and eastern Nebraska. Spends winters south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Preferred habitats include dry, brushy ravines and slopes, as well as cleared areas and weedy pastures.

Topo Map: Perching-like Body


Listen to Call

Similar Sounding

Voice Text

"see-see-sweet", "sweet-zee-see-zeer"

Interesting Facts

 Male Lazuli Buntings two years of age and older sing only one song, composed of a series of different syllables, and unique to that individual.

 They start their molt during late summer on their breeding grounds, then stop this molt and migrate to molting areas in southern Arizona, New Mexico and northern Sonora, or the southern tip of Baja California where they finish molting before continuing their migration to wintering grounds in western Mexico.

 A group of buntings are collectively known as a "decoration", "mural", and "sacrifice" of buntings.


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Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Range Map for Lazuli Bunting

Related Birds

Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Blue Grosbeak
Varied Bunting
Blue Bunting
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Family Cardinals and Grosbeaks (Cardinalidae)_blue
Species Passerina amoena
Length5.25 - 5.75 Inches
Wingspan8.5 Inches

Lazuli Bunting

Lazuli Bunting: Small finch, bright blue upperparts, cinnamon-brown breast and sides, white belly. Dark wings with white wing bar. Forages on ground, low in trees and bushes. Eats seeds, insects, caterpillars. Short flights, alternates rapid wing beats with brief periods of wings pulled to sides.

● Song: "see-see-sweet", "sweet-zee-see-zeer"

● Foraging & Feeding: Lazuli Bunting: Eats mainly seeds, but also some insects. Prefers weed and tree seeds.

● Breeding & nesting: Lazuli Bunting: Three to five pale blue eggs are laid in a loose cup of grass and rootlets built in a bush. Eggs are incubated for 12 days by the female.

● Similar species: Lazuli Bunting: Female Indigo Bunting lacks the conspicuous wing-bars.

Flight Pattern

Short flights.
Lazuli-Bunting Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Lazuli Bunting: Breeds from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and North Dakota south through western U.S. to southern California, northern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, and eastern Nebraska. Spends winters south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Preferred habitats include dry, brushy ravines and slopes, as well as cleared areas and weedy pastures.
BreedingMonogamous
PopulationFairly common
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.8 Ounces
Perching-like BodyX
UpperpartsX
Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.
BellyX
The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.
BreastX
The upper front part of a bird.
4 and 6 letter alpha codesX

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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ITIS CodesX

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990�s as a cooperative project among several federal agencies to improve and expand upon taxonomic data (known as the NODC Taxonomic Code) maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

To find the ITIS page for a bird species go to the ITIS web site advanced search and report page at http://www.itis.gov/advanced_search.html. You can enter the TSN or the common name of the bird. It will return the ITIS page for that bird. Another way to obtain the ITIS page is to use the Google search engine. Enter the string ITIS followed by the taxonomic ID, for example "ITIS 178041" will return the page for the Allen's Hummingbird.

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