Bluebird
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for a North American migratory bird of the family Turdidae (thrush family). The eastern bluebird, Sialia sialis, is among the first spring arrivals in the North. It is about 7 in.
Bluebird North American migratory bird of the thrush family. The Eastern bluebird is among the first spring rivals in the North. It is about 7 in. long.
Bluebirds are territorial, prefer open grassland with scattered trees and are cavity nesters (similar to many species of woodpecker).
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Fast Facts
Type: Bird Diet: Omnivore Average life span in the wild: 6 to 10 years Size: 6.5 to 8.5 in (16.5 to 19 cm) Weight: 0.84 to 1.
Bluebirds
Bluebirds are blue, however even though other birds are blue, none
have the reddish, chestnut brown coloring on the throat and
breast.
Eastern Bluebird
Sialia sialis (Linnaeus)
Status Rare transient, very rare in summer. Formerly bred. When it was regular, it arrived during the second half of March and remained until the second half of October, with stragglers later.
Eastern Bluebird
Photo from the Breeding Bird Survey page.
Last updated 4/14/96
A male Eastern Bluebird is quite a spectacular sight. Deep blue on the back, brick red on the front. Females are a paler version of the male.
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)
Description
Eastern Bluebirds are small birds, blue above with rusty throats and chests and white bellies. Males have much brighter, deeper colors than females.
Life History ...
Eastern Bluebird
Relatives in same Genus
Mountain Bluebird (S. currucoides)
Western Bluebird (S. mexicana) ...
Eastern bluebird Sialia sialis
Identification Tips:
Length: 5.5 inches
Thin bill
Most often seen in open habitats: agricultural areas, wood edges, et al
Southwestern United States birds are paler ...
Eastern Bluebird: Sialia sialis
Appearance:
Bluebirds are small, beautifully colored thrushes. They're often seen perched in a hunched position on wires or fences in fields and open woodlands throughout central and north Florida.
Western Bluebird
Adult male
Similar to adult male Eastern Bluebird
Blue throat and neck
Orangish chestnut breast extends to back
Bluish belly and undertail
© Jamie Chavez, Santa Maria, California, February 2009 ...
The Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) is a member of the thrush family and can be fairly common in open woodland and meadows across much of the eastern United States and southern Canada.
The Eastern Bluebird is the New York State Bird, but you'd be hard pressed to spot one here in the five boroughs. Once common, the meek bluebird has retreated in the face of aggression by invasive sparrows and starlings.
Bluebird populations declined greatly from the 1930s to the 1960s. The cause was habitat loss and competition from other cavity-nesting birds, especially starlings and house sparrows.
Bluebirds require scattered trees with fairly large, open expanses to easily find their food, so all Eastern Bluebirds sightings have been in rural areas but frequently close to human dwellings.
Bluebirds frequent open woodlands and farmlands with scattered trees where they build their nest in holes in trees using loose grasses and plant stems. They will also use old woodpecker holes, fence posts and nest boxes.
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Another reason to keep dead trees (snags) standing: Eastern Bluebird
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Fairy Bluebird (Irena puella)
Below you will find a collection of photos from various places. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2007. While these images are the property of mongabay.
Fairy bluebirds live in the forest crown and are gregarious fruit-eaters. They live in pairs or small troops and keep to the evergreen lowland forest.
“Bluebirds singing a song,
“Nothing but Bluebirds from now on.'
Even before European peoples arrived in America, the Navajos embodied the Bluebird in their rituals and folk beliefs, believing it signaled sunrise and renewal.
Mountain bluebird, scientific name Sialia currucoides, was declared as the state bird of Nevada in 1967. Prior to this, in 1931, the state's legislature of Idaho designated Mountain bluebird as its state bird.
Mountain Bluebirds are distinguished from the other bluebirds by the male's all blue coloration, without rusty underparts (see photo to the right). Females are much plainer (see photo #3 at the bottom of the page).
This fairy-bluebird breeds across tropical southern Asia from the Himalayan foothills, India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia. This species is found in moist hill-forest. Two or three eggs are laid in a small cup nest in a tree.
Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides
Described by: Bechstein (1798)
Alternate common name(s): Arctic Bluebird
Old scientific name(s): Sialia arctica ...
Mountain bluebirds are a western favorite, and it's not hard to see why. Learn how to attract a mountain bluebird to your yard, and listen to its song.
Photo: Dave Ryan ...
The Eastern Bluebird, Sialia sialis, is a blue songbird that sings a melodic warble. This beautiful member of the thrush family lives in the eastern half of the USA and in southern Canada, ranging from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains.
Eastern Bluebird
(Sialia sialis)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2011
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed
2007 to 2011: Confirmed ...
Diet The mountain bluebird hovers just above the ground looking for insects. When it spots one, it swoops down and snatches if up. It may also swoop down on its prey from a perch in a tree.
Stanford hosts four bluebird trails (linking nest boxes) at the Dish, Lake Lagunita, the Arboretum, and the Golf Course. Trails monitored weekly during nesting season (March through the end of July). Annual data viewable at arastradero.org.
Bluebird, Eastern Sialia sialis Found: North America and Central America
Males photographed by: 1) Steve Byland 2) Gregg Williams 3) Dick Daniels in North Carolina 4) Paul S. Wolf in Rising Fawn, Georgia ...
Eastern bluebird
Class: Aves
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not Listed
Electric eel ...
Bluebirds have a long breeding season, lasting from February through September. During the breeding season, both males and females may become very aggressive and may even fight members of the same sex to the death over mates and nest sites.
Bluebirds, Robins, and Thrushes forage on the ground and don't often visit feeders. Robins may be attracted to feeders by fruit. Bluebirds do use nest boxes placed where large open areas meet woodlands.
Bluebird, Eastern
A beautiful songbird from eastern North America. Go to a simple version (just the image).
Blue Jay
The Blue Jay is a beautiful, noisy blue bird.
Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis. Breeder. Common in all seasons and regions. Found in open rural areas, farmlands, fence rows, open suburban areas, and parks with scattered trees. Lowest Conservation Concern.
Eastern Bluebird
Summer Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? yes
Northern Bobwhite
Summer Sighting Information: abundant
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
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The eastern bluebird often raises cowbirds, at the expense of their own young, while the western and mountain bluebird, because of their long association with cowbirds, had more time to evolve anti-cowbird tactics.
Asian Fairy-bluebird
Range: through Malay archipelago
Habitat: forest, edge
White-crested Laughingthrush
Range: Southern Asia (India to Indonesia)
Habitat: forest undergrowth, second growth ...
8. Western Bluebird male, San Pablo Reservoir
9. Osprey along Drake's Beach, Point Reyes, Marin ...
If you live in bluebird country, a good thing to do is to set up your own "bluebird trail," either on your property, on public property, or on someone else's property-provided, of course, that you have permission to do so.
(little bluestem-post oak) 801 Savanna 802 Missouri prairie 804 Tall fescue 809 Mixed hardwood and pine 810 Longleaf pine-turkey oak hills 811 South Florida flatwoods 812 North Florida flatwoods PLANT COMMUNITIES : Eastern bluebirds are found in ...
antbirds, tapaculos, cotingas, manakins, tyrant flycatchers, sharpbill, plantcutters, pittas, New Zealand wrens, asities, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, fairy bluebirds, shrikes, ...
Some might be surprised to find hummingbirds at feeders in the Southeast in winter, or robins and bluebirds at feeders in the North. (more) ...
This has resulted in population declines for various wren, swallow, and bluebird populations. Starlings are very gregarious birds, flocking at all times with other starlings. These birds breed in bunches, feed in flocks, and migrate in masses.
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis), Orange Co., NC 9/30/2001. My first attempt at digiscoping - hand held camera to scope, about 50x. Bad lighting; foreground brightened some in Photoshop.
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis), Oregon Inlet, Dare Co.
The Robin is a member of the thrush family of birds--a family that also includes bluebirds, solitaires and thrushes.
New Egypt Fall Fest & Bluebird Trails
We are planning for another great festival including livemusic, crafters, children\'s rides and activities, great food, and new this year will be aBluebird Trail.
Bluebirds and robins produce blue eggs. Emus have greenish-black eggs. Rheas lay creamy beige eggs. Chickadee eggs have a red tint to them, and falcon eggs appear brownish-orange.
COMMON BLUE-BIRD.
[Eastern Bluebird.]
(State Bird of Missouri and New York)
SIALIA WILSONII, Swains.
[Sialia sialis.] ...
Starlings will also sometimes drive off native birds, including the bluebirds (Sialia spp.), the Purple Martin (Progne subis), Tree Swallows (Iridoprocne bicolor), and some
of the smaller species of woodpecker.
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Support the management of woodlands and wetlands that allows dead trees to stand. Woodpeckers, Bluebirds, and many other species of plants, insects, and mammals use these snags.
The Bearded Screech is a small Screech-Owl (6 1/4 - 7 1/2 in. in length which is roughly between the size of a House Sparrow and a Bluebird).
These jack pine stands also provide habitat for the upland sandpiper, Eastern bluebird, white tailed deer, black bear and snowshoe hare, and for several protected prairie plants, including the Allegheny plum, Hill's thistle, and rough fescue.
The planting of trees and provision of birdhouses in cities, though, has enabled some cavity-nesting birds, like the Western Bluebird, House Wren, and Nuttall's Woodpecker, to expand their ranges.
 See also: Sparrow, Starling, Purple, Cardinal, Oriole
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