Cyanocompsa parellina
Status: No accepted records.
Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized, none of regular occurrence north of Mexico (AviList 2025).
Comments: The single report, of one in Otoe Co 22 Jan 2015 was not accepted by NOURC as “lacking substantive evidence for a first state record” (Brogie 2016).
Almost all records of this species are in winter from the lower Rio Grande Valley, where it was reported nine of the 10 years 2015-2024 (eBiird.org, accessed Jul 2025); there about six reports along and near the Gulf Coast northeast to southwest Louisiana, along with two records 2021 and 2024 inland in Bexar Co, Texas (eBird.org, accessed Jul 2025). The first US record, oddly, was of one collected in Louisiana in Dec 1979.
Abbreviations
NOURC: Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union Records Committee
Literature Cited
AviList Core Team, 2025. AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025. https://doi.org/10.2173/avilist.v2025.
Brogie, M.A. 2016. 2015 (27th) Report of the NOU Records Committee. NBR 84: 138-150.
Recommended Citation
Silcock, W.R., and J.G. Jorgensen. 2025. Blue Bunting (Cyanocompsa parellina). In Birds of Nebraska — Online. www.BirdsofNebraska.org
Birds of Nebraska – Online
Updated 24 Jul 2025