Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Mountain Bluebird
Sialia currucoides
- langka
- 55 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Pure sky-blue from beak to tail. Hovers over sagebrush like a falling piece of summer.
- Populasi
- ~4.6 million
- Habitat
- Open country — mountain meadows, grasslands, sagebrush steppe, and burned or cut-over forest edges, often with scattered trees for perching and cavity-nesting; shifts to open juniper woodland in winter
- Fakta menarik
- The Mountain Bluebird is the official state bird of both Idaho and Nevada.
- Sebaran
- Western North America, breeding from Alaska and western Canada south through the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin to the southwestern US; winters from the western US south into central Mexico
- Makanan
- Mostly insects (grasshoppers, beetles, spiders) caught by hovering or from perches in summer; shifts substantially to berries and fruit (juniper, mistletoe, elderberry) in winter
- Ukuran
- 0,17 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,32 m
- Masa hidup
- 5 tahun
