Indigo Bunting

• Scientific Name: Passerina Cyanea
• Common Name: Indigo Bunting
• Diet: seeds
• Color: blue
• Size: 5.5 inches
• Active Period: Winter
• Habitat: town
• Field Identification: a brilliant blue ground feeding bird seen one Winter in Ajo
• Nest: cup in shrubs or trees
• Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
• Genus: Passerina
• Family: Cardinalidae
• Order: Passeriformes
• Phylum: Chordata (hollow nerve cord)
• Subphylum: Vertebrata (backbone)
• Species: cyanea