#1411 · 🐦 birds

Mountain Bluebird

🇳🇱 Bergsialia ·Sialia currucoides

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

9 in). They have light underbellies and black eyes. Adult males have thin bills and are bright turquoise-blue and somewhat lighter underneath. Adult females have duller blue wings and tail, grey breast, grey crown, throat and back. In fresh fall plumage, the female's throat and breast are tinged with red-orange, brownish near the flank contrasting with white tail underparts....

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 23,252iNaturalist observations
weight 3.2 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
23,252 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 3 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1798 (228 years ago).