mountain bluebird
sialia currucoides latin

Mountain bluebirds are slightly larger, with longer bills and tails.

Because of this, mountain bluebirds can be easily banded while they are still in the nest.

Contrary to popular belief, mountain bluebirds are not a species of concern in the United States.

Mountain bluebirds will come to a platform feeder with live meal worms, berries, or peanuts.

Mountain bluebirds will not abandon a nest if human activity is detected close by or at the nest.

Mountain bluebirds are cavity nesters and can become very partial to a nest box, especially if they have successfully raised a clutch.

Mountain bluebirds are a monogamous breed.

Squirrels, Northern Flickers, and Mountain Bluebirds often nest in the trees.

More than 120 species of birds have been observed in the area including Mountain bluebirds, Red-shouldered hawks and Golden eagles.

Juniper woodlands are home to mountain bluebirds, Townsend's Solitaires, and ferruginous hawks during the spring and summer.

In Oregon, mountain bluebirds (Siala currucoides) have been observed energetically mobbing chipmunks that they see near their nest trees.

Boring beetles and other insects feast on dead trees, then become the feast as woodpeckers, mountain bluebirds and tree swallows swarm to burned areas.

Rocky Mountain bluebirds flitted over an elk carcass, and, gliding across a thermal pool, a pair of trumpeter swans twined their necks about each other.

We put out seed and water and birds flocked - gnatcatchers, hummingbirds, red-tailed hawks, crows, brilliantly hued mountain bluebirds.

In one skeleton's pelvic area mountain bluebirds had built a nest, and in it the female bird, surrounded by peeping young, stared beadily at the startled boy.

Helen Cruickshank, 89 years old, was in Wyoming studying trumpeter swans and mountain bluebirds, so she had to miss today's meeting of the Society of Woman Geographers.

Visitors on trails may encounter Canyon Wrens, Mountain Bluebirds, Mountain Chickadees, Black-billed Magpies, and other birds.

Squirrels, Northern Flickers, and Mountain Bluebirds often nest in whitebark pines, and elk and Blue Grouse use whitebark pine communities as summer habitat.

The valley also hosts Mountain Chickadees, Cassin's Finches, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Green-tailed Towhees, Yellow-rumped Warblers, MacGillivray's Warblers, Mountain Bluebirds, White-headed Woodpeckers, and Flammulated Owls.

Mountain Chickadees, Cassin's Finches, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Green-tailed Towhees, Yellow-rumped Warblers, MacGillivray's Warblers, Mountain Bluebirds, Common Ravens, Northern Flickers, and White-headed Woodpeckers are common in parts of the region.

Female warblers, robins and bluebirds, for example, engage in what scientists call "extra-pair copulations," so that in many cases the nestlings' biological fathers are not the mothers' parent partners, said Dr. David Barash, a zoologist at the University of Washington who has studied the mating behavior of mountain bluebirds.