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Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
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Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting male

General Description: Lazuli Buntings (Passerina amoena) are small, sexually dimorphic songbirds. Adult males have a bright blue head, back, and rump, a red breast, and black wings with white wingbars. Females are dull brown with black wings and bluish on the rump.

Taxonomy: Passeriformes, Cardinalidae.

Favored Habitat:

Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting female

Where to Find: Around Las Vegas during migration, Lazuli Buntings show up anywhere they can find food (fruit); look for them at Corn Creek where they gorge on mulberries. During summer, look for them in the conifer forests on Mt. Charleston and other high-elevation mountains around Las Vegas.

Comments: Summer visitors only.

Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) If you were a tasty bug or a little seed, this might be the last face you ever see!
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting male
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting male
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting male
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting male
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting female
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting female
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting female
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting female
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting juvenile male
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting juvenile male
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Buntings; Portal, Arizona
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Lazuli Bunting at a mountain spring

Note: All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate.
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