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Mountain Bluebird 1 (Male) ...
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 ...
Mountain bluebird Sialia currucoides
Identification Tips:
Length: 6 inches
Thin bill
Most often seen in open habitats ...
Mountain Bluebird
Relatives in same Genus
Western Bluebird (S. mexicana)
Eastern Bluebird (S. sialis) ...
Mountain Bluebird
Sialia currucoides
The Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) breeds across much of western Canada and the northwest United States. It winters in parts of the Great Basin and the American Southwest and Mexico.
Mountain Bluebird in Aspen Tree by Mike Cavaroc
A mountain bluebird looks out onto the Mammoth Hot Springs Camground in Yellowstone National Park...
Yellowstone National Park
05/17/11 ...
Mountain Bluebirds occur regularly during the months of March and April in the Weaselhead/Glenmore Park area. Outside of these months, Mountain Bluebirds are rare in the summer and fall and absent during winter.
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.
Mountain bluebird: Description
Mountain bluebird has a large and round head with black eyes and a small, black bill. The body is short and thick (chunky) and possesses black legs and a medium-length tail.
Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides
Described by: Bechstein (1798)
Alternate common name(s): Arctic Bluebird
Old scientific name(s): Sialia arctica ...
Mountain Bluebirds feed mainly on insects. They can be seen hovering close to the ground when hunting.
These birds are highly migratory. The song is a soft warble. The call a thin few.
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Mountain Bluebird
Adult female
Similar to adult female Eastern Bluebird
Breast usually grayish (may sometimes have rufous coloration)
Gray flanks
Longer wings and tail, thin black bill
© Robinsegg , Utah, October 2008 ...
The mountain bluebird is all blue with a lightly colored bluish white chest,
it's song is a soft warbling whistle, generally silent except at
dawn.
Both the western and mountain bluebirds are found in western North America.
Eastern bluebirds and mountain bluebirds (Sialia currucoides) may occupy the same nest site in different years [46].
Nevada - Mountain Bluebird
New Hampshire - Purple Finch
New Jersey - Eastern Goldfinch
New Mexico - Roadrunner
New York - Bluebird
North Carolina - Cardinal
North Dakota - Western Meadowlark
Ohio - Cardinal ...
Mountain Bluebird, Sialia currucoides
Townsend's Solitaire, Myadestes townsendi
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush, Catharus aurantiirostris (A)
Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush, Catharus mexicanus (A)
Veery, Catharus fuscescens ...
Page 5: Rough-legged Hawk, Mountain Bluebird (March 2007), Northern Shrike (Feb 2007), Saw-Whet Owl (March 2007), Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher(Feb 2007), American Redstart, Clay-colored Sparrow, Sage Sparrow (April 2007).
Photos by Andrew Mascarenhas ...
ARCTIC BLUE-BIRD.
[Mountain Bluebird.]
(State Bird of Idaho and Nevada)
SIALIA ARCTICA, Swains.
[Sialia currucoides.] ...
The Western Bluebird, like its cousins the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) and the Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides), belongs to the Thrushes, a large family of perching birds that typically feed on insects and fruits.
Western bluebirds are found west of the Rocky Mountains from Canada to Mexico. The mountain bluebird also inhabits much of western North America-often at elevations above 7,000 feet (2,133 meters).
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.
Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
Western Bluebird Sialia mexicana
Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides
Behavior ...
Tiny Predators: Chipmunks play an important role as prey for various predatory mammals and birds, but are also opportunistic predators themselves, particularly with regard to bird eggs and nestlings. In Oregon, Mountain Bluebirds (Siala ...
At Busby turn right again (south) onto Road 314 and follow it for 26 miles past the Rosebud Battlefield. The good birding starts on road 314 with numerous Eastern and Western Kingbirds, Kestrels and Mountain Bluebirds.
 See also: Bluebird, Eastern Bluebird, Sparrow, Woodpecker, Flicker
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