Species: Passerina cyanea
Indigo Bunting
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cardinalidae
Genus
Passerina
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Colorín Azul - passerin indigo
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Cardinalidae - Passerina - LINARIA is an invalid generic name for North America buntings (Banks and Browning 1995).
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
A small bird (bunting).
Migration
false - false - true - Males generally appear in nesting range in May (Terres 1980). Arrives in Costa Rica early to mid-October, departs by late April (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Eats insects, weed seeds, small grains, small fruits; forages in trees, shrubbery, on ground (Terres 1980).
Reproduction Comments
Clutch size is three-six (commonly three-four). Sometimes produces two broods per year. Incubation lasts 12-13 days, by female. Young leave nest at 9-13 days; male may or may not feed nestlings and/or fledged young. Males sometimes have more than one female nesting on their territories.
Ecology Comments
In Costa Rica and Mexico, sometimes alone or in small groups, more often in flocks of 20 or more that move to areas with seeding grasses (Stiles and Skutch 1989, Rappole and Warner 1980).
Length
14
Weight
15
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-12-03
Global Status Last Changed
1996-12-03
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
BREEDING: southeastern British Columbia and southeastern Saskatchewan across southern Canada to southern Maine, southern New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, south to southern New Mexico, southern Texas, Gulf Coast, and central Florida; sporadic breeding southwest to southern California, southeastern Arizona, and southwestern Utah (Payne 1992, AOU 1998). NON-BREEDING: Nayarit, San Luis Potosi, and Bermuda south to Panama and northwestern Colombia; Bahamas, Greater Antilles (including the Virgin Islands), Cayman Islands; rarely from southern Texas, Gulf Coast, and Florida south (AOU 1998).