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title: "Blue Grosbeak"
description: "Passerina caerulea — Birds. The blue grosbeak (Passerina caerulea) is a medium-sized North American passerine bird in the cardinal family Cardinalidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/blue-grosbeak
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Blue Grosbeak

> Passerina caerulea — Birds. The blue grosbeak (Passerina caerulea) is a medium-sized North American passerine bird in the cardinal family Cardinalidae.

- Scientific name: *Passerina caerulea*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 33751
- Wikidata: [Q794337](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q794337)
- iNaturalist taxon: [73155](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/73155)

## Names

- en: Blue Grosbeak
- de: Azurbischof
- es: Picogordo azul
- fr: Guiraca bleu
- pt: Azulejo-real
- pl: Łuszczyk błękitny

## Countries with the most observations

US (19714), MX (10942), CA (184), CR (173), SV (166), HN (151), NI (122), GT (34), BZ (25), PA (12), CU (8), PR (5)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_grosbeak

## Photo

![Blue Grosbeak](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blue-grosbeak/medium.jpg)

Photo: Aaron Polichar · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/215855783

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/blue-grosbeak?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).