Galapagos Species Database

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Passerina cyanea Linnaeus, 1766

Escribano Índigo, Azulillo, Indigo bunting

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Aves

Order
Passeriformes

Family
Cardinalidae

Genus
Passerina

Species
cyanea

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Vagrant

Status

Least concern

Distribution

Distribution: Millington and Price (1982) documented an adult male seen on Daphne Major on 2 May 1979.

References

  • 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.