Lazuli Bunting
(Passerina amoena)

Overview

Summary

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The Lazuli Bunting has increased its range in Canada since the late 1960s, spreading north from the Thompson Valley into the valleys of the Cariboo-Chilcotin Plateau of central British Columbia (Campbell et al. 2001). Concomitant with this range expansion has been a dramatic population increase; Breeding Bird Survey data suggest numbers of Lazuli Buntings in Canada have increased by about 180% since about 1970.

Designations

Population status

Population estimate

Distribution maps

• BirdLife International / NatureServe
• Breeding Bird Survey (BBS): Relative Abundance and Breeding Distribution (1993-2012)

Migration strategy, occurrence

Responsibility for conservation of world population

Conservation and management

Lazuli Buntings nest in shrubby habitats, so can benefit at least temporarily from burned or logged over forests (Greene et al. 1996, Campbell et al. 2001).

Bird conservation region strategies

Environment and Climate Change Canada and partners have developed Bird Conservation Region Strategies in each of Canada’s Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs). In these strategies, selected species are identified as priorities for one or more of the following reasons:

• conservation concerns (i.e., species vulnerable due to population size, distribution, population trend, abundance, or threats)
• stewardship responsibilities (i.e., species that typify the regional avifauna or have a large proportion of their range or population in the sub-region)
• management concerns (i.e., species that require ongoing management because of their socio-economic importance as game species, or because of their impacts on other species or habitats)
• other concerns (i.e., species deemed a priority by regional experts for other reasons than those listed above or because they are listed as species at risk or concern at the provincial level)

Select any of the sub-regions below to view the BCR strategy for additional details.

References

• Campbell, R.W., N.K. Dawe, I. McTaggart-Cowan, J.M. Cooper, G.W. Kaiser, M.C.E. McNall and G.E. J. Smith. 2001. The Birds of British Columbia. Volume 4: Passerines, Wood Warblers through Old World Sparrows. UBC Press, Vancouver, Britsh Columbia. 744 pp.
• Greene, E., V.R. Muehter and W. Davison. 1996. Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Greene, E., V.R. Muehter and W. Davison. 1996. Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. (Link)