#1464 · 🐦 birds
Lazuli Bunting
🇳🇱 Lazuligors ·Passerina amoena
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what is it?
The lazuli bunting ( Passerina amoena ) is a North American songbird named for the gemstone lapis lazuli.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 17,628 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1823 (203 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lazuli Bunting
- Nederlands
- Lazuligors
- scientific name
- Passerina amoena
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Cardinalidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 17,628
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1823 by Thomas Say
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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LC 👀 1 in NL
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LC 🌍 61.5k seen
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#1335 📷 9Western Tanager
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LC 🌍 38.9k seen
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LC 🌍 38.2k seen
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LC 🌍 36.6k seen
#1353 📷 10Blue Grosbeak
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LC 🌍 34.2k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 10234, Wikidata Q786964, GBIF 5230861, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.