Blue Grosbeak

Passerina caerulea

Azulejo,
Picogrueso Azul

Audio
(M. Oberle)

A large-billed, blue finch with rusty wing bars. The brown female also has rusty wing bars. Length: 15-16 cm.; weight: 26-31 g. Audio (M. Oberle). Breeds in the southern USA and Central America. Winters in Central America. Rare winter visitor to coastal Puerto Rico.

TAXONOMY: PASSERIFORMES; CARDINALIDAE. Formerly in the genus Guairaca.

References

Arendt, W.J. 1992. Status of North American migrant landbirds in the Caribbean region: a summary. Pp. 143-171 in Ecology and conservation of neotropical migrant landbirds (J.M. Hagan III and D.W. Johnston, eds.) Smithsonian Instit. Press, Washington, D.C.

Ballentine, B. and G. E. Hill. 2003. Female mate choice in relation to structural plumage coloration in Blue Grosbeaks. Condor 105(3):593-598.

Bent, A.C. 1968. Life histories of North American cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, towhees, finches, sparrows and allies, part 1. Smithsonian Instit. U.S. National Museum Bull. 237. (Reprinted by Dover Press, NY, 1968).

Ehrlich, P.R., D.S. Dobkin, and D. Wheye. 1988. The birderÆs handbook: a field guide to the natural history of North American birds. Simon and Schuster/ Fireside, NY.

Ingold, J. L. 1994. Blue Grosbeak (Guiraca caerulea). No. 79 in The birds of North America (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, PA, and Am. Ornithol. Union, Washington, D.C.

Raffaele, H.A. 1989. A guide to the birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Princeton.

Raffaele, H.A. 1989. Una guía a las aves de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes. Publishing Resources, Inc., Santurce, PR.

Raffaele, H.A., J.W. Wiley, O.H. Garrido, A.R. Keith, and J.I. Raffaele. 1998. Guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton.

Blue Grosbeak, Spanish text

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