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Eastern bluebird

Sialia sialis · Family Turdidae

Sialia sialis

Family Turdidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Turdidae
GBIF occurrence records
8,087,193
Countries and territories with records
13
Eastern bluebird
Bettina Arrigoni · Eastern Bluebird (male) Reef Townsite CG Carr Canyon Sierra Vista AZ 2017-04-30 11-22-15 (34391999575).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Bettina Arrigoni · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Sialia_sialis_-_Eastern_Bluebird_XC171662.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 8,087,193 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (96.7%) and Canada (2.8%); together they account for 99.4% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.7% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Sialia sialis combines the genus name Sialia with the species epithet sialis. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Sialia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Sialia mexicana and Sialia currucoides.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 155 species of the family Turdidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Turdus migratorius. Its record count is 15.2 times the family average (532,772). The family Turdidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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