Lazuli Bunting Images, Facts and Information:
Passerina amoena
- Lazuli Buntings are small, migratory birds. Male Lazuli Buntings have bright, sky blue upperparts and heads, white bellies, and cinnamon colored breasts. Females and juveniles have dull brown upperparts, a light wash of blue on their rumps and tails and two pale wingbars.
- Lazuli Buntings are birds that are found primarily in the Western U.S. and Canada during the breeding season. They start to molt on their breeding grounds, finish their molt in southern Arizona, New Mexico, northern Sonora and Baja California in Mexico before migrating to their wintering grounds in Mexico.
- Lazuli Buntings mainly eat seeds but do consume insects and fruits.
- Lazuli Buntings lay 3 to 5 eggs which hatch in 12 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of buntings can be called a “decoration” or “mural” of buntings.
- Lazuli Buntings can live to be 10 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Lazuli Bunting photos.
Immature Lazuli Bunting with ripe serviceberries
Title: Immature Lazuli Bunting with ripe serviceberries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/10/2023
Lazuli Bunting on a fence
Title: Lazuli Bunting on a fence
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/21/2022
Lazuli Bunting juvenile on an old willow branch
Title: Lazuli Bunting juvenile on an old willow branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Immature Lazuli Bunting eating grass seeds
Title: Immature Lazuli Bunting eating grass seeds
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Young Lazuli Bunting eating grass seeds
Title: Young Lazuli Bunting eating grass seeds
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Juvenile Lazuli Bunting feeding on grass seeds
Title: Juvenile Lazuli Bunting feeding on grass seeds
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Young Lazuli Bunting looking at grass seed heads
Title: Young Lazuli Bunting looking at grass seed heads
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Juvenile Lazuli Bunting grasping grass seeds
Title: Juvenile Lazuli Bunting grasping grass seeds
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Young Lazuli Bunting feeding on grass seeds
Title: Young Lazuli Bunting feeding on grass seeds
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Juvenile Lazuli Bunting in early morning light
Title: Juvenile Lazuli Bunting in early morning light
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Juvenile Lazuli Bunting perched on a thin twig
Title: Juvenile Lazuli Bunting perched on a thin twig
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Young Lazuli Bunting in low light conditions
Title: Young Lazuli Bunting in low light conditions
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Immature Lazuli Bunting in mid morning light
Title: Immature Lazuli Bunting in mid morning light
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2022
Young Lazuli Bunting peeking out of a serviceberry shrub
Title: Young Lazuli Bunting peeking out of a serviceberry shrub
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/20/2022
Lazuli Bunting juvenile in a serviceberry
Title: Lazuli Bunting juvenile in a serviceberry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/20/2022
Lazuli Bunting male in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Lazuli Bunting male in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/11/2022
Male Lazuli Bunting perched on one foot
Title: Male Lazuli Bunting perched on one foot
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022
Lazuli Bunting male high in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Lazuli Bunting male high in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022
Male Lazuli Bunting perched on a big stick
Title: Male Lazuli Bunting perched on a big stick
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022
Summer male Lazuli Bunting
Title: Summer male Lazuli Bunting
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022