Passerina cyanea

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Passerina cyanea - small deep blue North American bunting

indigo bird, indigo bunting, indigo finch

bunting - any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America

genus Passerina, Passerina - a genus of small North American finches including the New World buntings

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In 2017, we processed 39 birds: 11 American robins (Turdus migratorius), 1 common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas), 20 gray catbirds (Dumetella carolinensis), 2 house wrens (Troglodytes aedon), 1 indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea), 3 northern cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis), and 1 American yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia).

Distribution, Host-Seeking Phenology, and Host and Habitat Associations of Haemaphysalis longicornis Ticks, Staten Island, New York, USA

We monitored 997 active nests of eight species with sufficient sample sizes to fit nest survival models including 73 Acadian flycatcher (Empidonax virescens, [n.sub.eff] = 1276), 172 bluegray gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea, [n.sub.eff] = 1980), 256 Eastern wood-pewee (Contofms virens, [n.sub.eff] = 5344), 72 field sparrow (Spizella pusilla, [n.sub.eff] = 608), 207 indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea, [n.sub.eff] = 2206), 47 prairie warbler (Setophaga discolor, [n.sub.eff] = 504), 66 summer tanager (Piranga rubra, [n.sub.eff] = 893), and 102 yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens, [n.sub.eff] = 1021) nests.

Songbird Nest Survival in Managed Oak Savannas and Woodlands in the Missouri Ozarks

The most common species of birds were tufted titmice (Baeolophus bicolor; average of 1.69 individuals/count), indigo buntings (Passerina cyanea; 1.20), and red-eyed vireos (Vireo olivaceus; 0.64).

Effects of available food resources on numbers of the endangered American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus)

Other species widely held in early American homes included Baltimore orioles (Icterus galbula), bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), rose-breasted grosbeaks (Pheucticus ludovicianus), eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis), indigo buntings (Passerina cyanea), gray catbirds (Dumetella carolinensis), purple finches (Carpodacus purpureus), "black caps" or black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapilla), and red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus).

Companion birds in early America

Whereas, stands embedded within agriculture supported particularly high numbers of more open, edge-dwelling species such as the field sparrow (Spizella pusilla), eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus), and indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea), adding edge-associated species to the regrowth parches.

Old regrowth forest patches as habitat for the conservation of avian diversity in a southwest Ohio landscape

For instance, most nests found on the State Game Lands (SGL) 33 ROW in 1991-92 were those of early successional species, including field sparrow (Spizella pusilla), gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus), common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas), and indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) (Bramble et al.