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Indigo bunting
Passerina cyanea · Family Cardinalidae
Passerina cyanea
Family Cardinalidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cardinalidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 3,995,872
- Countries and territories with records
- 54
About this species
This species has 3,995,872 occurrence records from 54 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (91.6%), Canada (5.6%) and Mexico (1.2%); together they account for 98.5% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.33% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Passerina cyanea combines the genus name Passerina with the species epithet cyanea. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Passerina; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Passerina caerulea, Passerina amoena and Passerina ciris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 47 species of the family Cardinalidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cardinalis cardinalis. Its record count is 4.1 times the family average (967,279). The family Cardinalidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.