Western Bluebird

Sialia mexicana Swainson, 1832

Western Bluebird, Sialia mexicana, is a thrush of North America and Middle America, breeding from western North America to central Mexico. It was described by Swainson in 1832. A small, stocky bird, it is set apart from the other bluebirds by the colour of the throat: blue in the male and grey in the female. It lives in coniferous forests, farmland, semi-open country and desert, and has also adapted to restored woodland, nest boxes and cavities. Its breeding range reaches north to British Columbia, Montana and the Pacific Northwest.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Turdidae — Thrushes

Breeding range

North America, Middle America: w NA to c Mexico