How to identify: Mountain bluebirds are fairly small thrushes with round heads and straight, thin bills. Compared with other bluebirds they are lanky and long-winged, with a long tail. Habitat: Dry, ...

Bird lovers know Colorado is the home of the blues — bluebirds, that is. Found all across the state, Mountain bluebirds are some of the first migrants to return every spring. Brilliant flashes of ...

Editor’s Note: Nevada 150 is a yearlong series highlighting the people, places and things that make up the history of the state. The mountain bluebird is so common in the West that it serves as the ...

Due to our high elevation in Summit County, we have brighter bluebird days than most of Colorado, and seeing our magnificent mountain bluebirds can make your day even more spectacular. These birds are ...

Minnesota birders are talking about a rare sighting of a bluebird normally seen in mountain states to the west. Milt Blomberg of St. Augusta spotted the mountain bluebird at 11:15 a.m. Saturday at ...

While they migrate north along the Front Range and Great Plains, mountain bluebirds can’t wait for the weather to warm up so they can return to their mountain home. They typically arrive here in ...

Jul. 7—On Thursday, for the first and very likely last time in my life, I visited Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens on the same day. No bird could be more fitting for this Cascadian journey than the ...

The contiguous 48 United States all have at least one of the three species of bluebirds, the Western, the Eastern or the Mountain, but very few have all three. One of those few states is Arizona, ...

If you are a western bluebird trying to expand your range in the rough-and-tumble forests of Montana, it helps to be an aggressive male. And if you want to have an aggressive male, it helps to pump a ...

A charismatic species associated with high elevations, this mountain bluebird specimen was collected in Colorado Springs in 1898 (that’s 123 years ago!). Male mountain bluebirds are cloaked in a ...