Species: Lazuli Bunting
Most recent capture date: 7/23/2023
Age: just over one year old
Sex: male
Notes: Often, molting birds that are a mix of dull and bright plumage, as this one is, are young birds just growing in their fancy adult plumage. A close look at this fellow, however, reveals that the new growing feathers are the dull ones: he isn’t a dull juvenile becoming bright, he’s a bright male growing in his less-bright nonbreeding plumage.