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.
Inquisitive adult male Lazuli Bunting
Title: Inquisitive adult male Lazuli Bunting
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022
Male Lazuli Bunting perched on a willow branch
Title: Male Lazuli Bunting perched on a willow branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022
Lazuli Bunting male singing on sagebrush
Title: Lazuli Bunting male singing on sagebrush
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2022
Male Lazuli Bunting perched in sage
Title: Male Lazuli Bunting perched in sage
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2022
Lazuli Bunting male reaching out for grass seeds
Title: Lazuli Bunting male reaching out for grass seeds
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/15/2021
Lazuli Bunting male perched on a curved branch
Title: Lazuli Bunting male perched on a curved branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/15/2021
Male Lazuli Bunting taking a short break from foraging
Title: Male Lazuli Bunting taking a short break from foraging
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/15/2021
Male Lazuli Bunting perched in a juniper
Title: Male Lazuli Bunting perched in a juniper
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/26/2021
Lazuli Bunting male perched in tall grasses
Title: Lazuli Bunting male perched in tall grasses
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/14/2020
Male Lazuli Bunting perched in front of Black Twinberry Honeysuckle
Title: Male Lazuli Bunting perched in front of Black Twinberry Honeysuckle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/14/2020
Adult male Lazuli Bunting eating grass seeds
Title: Adult male Lazuli Bunting eating grass seeds
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/14/2020
Lazuli Bunting male up close
Title: Lazuli Bunting male up close
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/14/2020
Male Lazuli Bunting in July
Title: Male Lazuli Bunting in July
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/14/2020
Adult male Lazuli Bunting perched in a serviceberry
Title: Adult male Lazuli Bunting perched in a serviceberry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/9/2020
Male Lazuli Bunting about to lift off
Title: Male Lazuli Bunting about to lift off
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/11/2020
Adult male Lazuli Bunting perched on a metal fence
Title: Adult male Lazuli Bunting perched on a metal fence
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/11/2020
Curious looking immature Lazuli Bunting
Title: Curious looking immature Lazuli Bunting
Location: Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/25/2018
Female Lazuli Bunting eating a Serviceberry berry
Title: Female Lazuli Bunting eating a Serviceberry berry
Location: Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/25/2018
Lazuli Bunting female feeding on serviceberries
Title: Lazuli Bunting female feeding on serviceberries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/25/2018
Adult male Lazuli Bunting in a Serviceberry
Title: Adult male Lazuli Bunting in a Serviceberry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2018