lazuli bunting (Passerina amoena) Santa Rosa Creek Road, San Luis Obispo Co., CA, USA. April 25
Date 25 April 2011, 15:47:10
Source Flickr: Lazuli Bunting, Passerina amoena
Author Bill Bouton http://www.flickr.com/people/8086030@N03
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lazuli_Bunting,_Passerina_amoena_1.jpg
The lazuli bunting (Passerina amoena) is a North American songbird named for the gemstone lapis lazuli. Lazuli buntings breed mostly west of the 100th meridian from southern Canada to northern Texas, central New Mexico and Arizona, and southern California.
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae
Genus: Passerina
Species: Passerina amoena (Say, 1823)