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Western bluebird
Sialia mexicana · Family Turdidae
Sialia mexicana
Family Turdidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Turdidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,646,372
- Countries and territories with records
- 5
About this species
This species has 1,646,372 occurrence records from 5 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (97.7%) and Canada (1.6%); together they account for 99.2% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.14% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Sialia mexicana combines the genus name Sialia with the species epithet mexicana. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Sialia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Sialia sialis and Sialia currucoides.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 155 species of the family Turdidae. This species ranks 11th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Turdus migratorius. Its record count is 3.1 times the family average (532,772). The family Turdidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.