#1292 · 🐦 birds

Western Bluebird

🇳🇱 Blauwkeelsialia ·Sialia mexicana

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

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. Immature western...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 73,558iNaturalist observations
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.
73,558 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by William Swainson in 1832 (194 years ago).