Thrushes
Western Bluebird
Sialia mexicana
The western bluebird (Sialia mexicana) is a small thrush, about 15 to 18 cm (5.9 to 7.1 in) in length. Adult males are bright blue on top and on the throat with an orange breast and sides, a brownish patch on back, and a gray belly and undertail coverts. Adult females have a duller blue body, wings, and tail than the male, a gray throat, a dull orange breast, and a gray belly and undertail coverts.
- Family
- Thrushes
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Weight
- 26 g
- Habitat
- Woodland
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 3
