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 rarely wanders west to south-central ...

Lazuli buntings migrate through Texas from winter homes in Mexico during the spring, from April through May, and normally follow a route from the Trans-Pecos to the Panhandle.

The blue is easy to see, but it’s important to understand how "great" this bird is. With a height of 3.2 to 4.5 feet and a wingspan of 5.5 to 6.6 feet, it sure is great.

The Troyer bird is a first-year male, and, for whatever reason, took a wrong turn. Midwestern U.S. records are very few, and lazuli bunting wasn’t high on the list of next species to appear in Ohio.

Populations of Lazuli Buntings (Passerina amoena) and Indigo Buntings (P. cyanea) overlap in their distribution and hybridize in the Great Plains of North America. We conducted a 4-year field study of ...

A lazuli bunting was spotted in Megis County, according to a post on the agency’s Facebook page. It said “This is very likely the first documented report of this species touching down in the ...