Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Passerina cyanea
Escribano Índigo, Azulillo, Indigo bunting
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cardinalidae
Genus
Passerina
Species
cyanea
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Vagrant
Distribution: Millington and Price (1982) documented an adult male seen on Daphne Major on 2 May 1979.
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
- Millington, S.J. Price, T.D. (1982) Birds on Daphne Major 1979-1981. Noticias de Galápagos 35: 25-27.
- IUCN (2015) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 November 2015.
- Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Passerina cyanea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5137. Accessed 16 July 2025.