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 LC    Eastern Bluebird* Id (Atlas):
    Sialia sialis Vagrant

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Eastern Bluebird, Azure Bluebird

Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
17.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, temperate forest. From 700 - 2,700 m.

Range (Guide)
Belize, Bermuda, Canada (B), El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, USA (B).

Vagrant to Cuba, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), Virgin Islands (U.S.).

Population
Estimated population is 10,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (98)...)

 
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia) [XC544298]
     by Manuel Grosselet from Walpole (near Norfolk), Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States (song)

 
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) [XC836351]
     by Robin Carter from Bensalem Township (near Riverside), Burlington County, New Jersey, United States (call)

Subspecies
Occasionally hybridizes with Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides). Geographical variation slight, and level of individual variation in morphology and behaviour within and between populations remarkably high. In addition, lack of a "prealternate" moult results in very worn birds in spring and summer, confounding racial analysis and attribution; bermudensis, grata and meridionalis possibly untenable. Proposed subspecies episcopus (southern coastal Texas, in USA, south to southern Tamaulipas, in north-eastern Mexico) considered indistinguishable from nominate.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

  • sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Southern and south-eastern Canada and eastern USA south to north-eastern Mexico. Non-breeding also northern Mexico and Bermuda.
  • fulva Brewster, 1885   -  South-western USA (south-eastern Arizona) south through montane central Mexico.
  • grata Bangs, 1898   -  South-western USA (southern Florida).
  • bermudensis Verrill, AH, 1901   -  Bermuda.
  • nidificans Phillips, AR, 1991   -  Caribbean slope of east-central Mexico.
  • guatemalae Ridgway, 1882   -  South-eastern Mexico (Chiapas) and Guatemala.
  • meridionalis Dickey & van Rossem, 1930   -  El Salvador, Honduras and northern Nicaragua.
  • caribaea Howell, TR, 1965   -  Eastern Honduras and north-eastern Nicaragua.



References
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Files:
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