Eastern Bluebird

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Turdidae

Genus

Sialia

eBird Code

easblu

Subspecies (7)

• Sialia sialis bermudensis

  Bermuda

• Sialia sialis caribaea

  eastern Honduras and northeastern Nicaragua

• Sialia sialis fulva

  breeds mountains of south-central Arizona to southern Mexico (Guerrero); winters to Guatemala

• Sialia sialis guatemalae

  southern Mexico (Chiapas) and Guatemala

• Sialia sialis meridionalis

  northern El Salvador, central and western Honduras, and north-central Nicaragua; birds from western Belize probably also this subspecies

• Sialia sialis nidificans

  eastern Mexico (southwestern Tamaulipas to central Veracruz)

• Sialia sialis sialis

  breeds in eastern North America, from southern Canada to northeastern Mexico (southern Tamaulipas); winters from eastern USA to northern Mexico, rarely to Cuba