Such records are rare as hen’s teeth. Thus, on Jan. 4, the birding communication networks lit up with news of a lazuli bunting that was discovered by Moses Troyer in rural Meigs County.

She said it looked like a Lazuli Bunting — but the location didn't make sense, since they are a species native to the West Coast and Mexico." According to the Audubon Society, the birds ...

It sometimes hybridizes with the lazuli bunting. Monotypic. Length 5.5". Highly sexually dimorphic. Summer male: plumage unmistakable, entirely bright blue. Winter male: blue obscured by brown and ...