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Nevada State Bird Mountain Bluebird
- Official Nevada State Bird: Mountain Bluebird
- Family: Turdidae, Thrushes
- Scientific name: Sialia currucoides

- Length: 7.25" (18 cm)
- Diet: Insects; also takes fruit, especially in winter.
Young fed insects.
- Foraging Behavior: Often hovers while foraging from ground
or hawking from low perch.
- Voice:
Song a series of low, burry whistles like call
jerrf jerrf jewr jipo jerrf. Call a soft whistle similar to other
bluebirds but thinner and clearer: feeer or a mellow, muffled
perf, always descending; also a short, harsh chik or
chak.
- Habitat: Open rangelands, meadows, generally at
elevations above 5,000 feet; in winter found primarily in open
lowlands, desert.
- Number of broods: 2
- Nest: Often in woodpecker-excavated cavity; loose
cup of grass, weed stems, pine needles, twigs, occasionally with hair
or feathers. Female selects site.
- Eggs: Averages 5-6 pale blue to bluish-white
eggs, rarely white, unmarked. 0.8" (22 mm).
- Incubation period: 13-14 days
- Fledge: 22-23 days after hatching
- Longevity Record: 9 Years and 0 months (according to USGS
Bird Banding Lab)
The Mountain Bluebird was designated the official Nevada State Bird in 1967 (NRS 235.060 State Bird).
Nevada Birds
Bluebirds are the State Birds of three other States besides Nevada. Go to
Idaho State
Bird (also the Mountain Bluebird). Go to
Missouri
State Bird and
New York
State Bird (Eastern Bluebird).
For more information about bird houses or nest boxes for bluebirds: Go to
bluebird
house plans.
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