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 ...

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 ...