Lazuli bunting

Description:

The Lazuli Bunting is a pretty small finch with bright blue upper parts, cinnamon-brown breast and sides and a white belly. Dark wings with white wing bar. They look similar to Western Bluebirds. First-year males look similar to mature males, but have a brownish wash. Females look like unstreaked sparrows: they are buffy-brown all over, with two narrow, white wing-bars on each wing.

Habitat:

The lazuli bunting forages on the ground, low in trees and bushes looking for seeds, insects, caterpillars to eat. Can be found in the western United States. I spotted this lazuli bunting sitting on a bluebird feeder in a field that overlooks the Shoshone River in Cody, Wyoming.