Lazuli Bunting
Passerina amoena(Say, T, 1822)
English (US) Lazuli Bunting
The Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cardinalidae (Cardinals and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds southern British Columbia to northwestern Baja California and western Texas; winters in MexicoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Passerina amoena
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Lazuli Bunting
- Described by
- (Say, T, 1822)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Emberiza amoena
- Described by
- (Say, T, 1822)
- Type locality
- Rocky Mountains, source of the Arkansas [=near Canyon City, Colorado, fide Amer. Ornith. Union, 1910, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 3, p. 285] .
- Original description
- Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: under the command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party 2 p.47,note
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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