Sometimes three broods are raised Lazuli’s eastern cousin: The closely related indigo bunting, almost entirely a deep blue color, is a common bird in the eastern United States, but only very ...

The name lazuli derives from the stunningly blue mineral, lazurite, or blue stone called lapis lazuli. Seeing the small 5-inch-long lazuli bunting ... song is a variation of songs from older ...

The blue bunting is in its own genus Cyanocompsa. Three buntings are found in Montana; only the lazuli is common and ... but retain the blue and brown colors. Males are prolific singers and ...

The Audubon Society says lazuli bunting males are sky blue and usually have a rusty chest, white belly and white wing bars. Females are brown and usually show a cinnamon wash on an unstreaked chest.

Such records are rare as hen’s teeth. Thus, on Jan. 4, the birding communication networks lit up with news of a lazuli bunting that was discovered by Moses Troyer in rural Meigs County.

It sometimes hybridizes with the lazuli bunting. Monotypic. Length 5.5". Highly sexually dimorphic. Summer male: plumage unmistakable, entirely bright blue. Winter male: blue obscured by brown and ...