General Description: Lazuli Buntings (Passerina amoena) are small, sexually dimorphic songbirds. Adult males have a bright blue head, back, and rump, a red breast, and black wings with white wingbars. Females are dull brown with black wings and bluish on the rump.

Taxonomy: Passeriformes, Cardinalidae.

Favored Habitat:

Where to Find: Around Las Vegas during migration, Lazuli Buntings show up anywhere they can find food (fruit); look for them at Corn Creek where they gorge on mulberries. During summer, look for them in the conifer forests on Mt. Charleston and other high-elevation mountains around Las Vegas.

Comments: Summer visitors only.