Blue Grosbeak
Passerina caerulea
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyCardinalidae (Cardinàlids)
- GenusPasserina (North American Buntings)
- SpeciesPasserina caerulea (Blue Grosbeak)
The blue grosbeak (Passerina caerulea) is a medium-sized North American passerine bird in the cardinal family Cardinalidae. It is mainly migratory, wintering in Central America and breeding in northern Mexico and the southern United States. The male is blue with two brown wing bars. The female is mainly brown with scattered blue feathers on the upperparts and two brown wing bars. Wikipedia →
Closest Relatives at Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge
Indigo Bunting
Passerina cyanea
Summer Tanager
Piranga rubra
Blue-black Grosbeak
Cyanocompsa cyanoides
Scarlet Tanager
Piranga olivacea
Dickcissel
Spiza americana
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianus
Carmiol's Tanager
Chlorothraupis carmioli
Great Kiskadee
Pitangus sulphuratus
Montezuma Oropendola
Psarocolius montezuma
Lesser Greenlet
Hylophilus decurtatus
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Ramphocelus passerinii
Bananaquit
Coereba flaveola
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Blue Grosbeak at Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge — not enough to chart months honestly.
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there