Learn to Identify Birds in Alaska!
Make bird watching in Alaska even more enjoyable! With Stan Tekiela’s famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There’s no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don’t live in your area. This book features 150 species of Alaska birds, organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don’t know what it is? Go to the yellow section to find out. Fact-filled information, a compare feature, range maps, and detailed photographs help to ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.
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Mountain Bluebird
Sialia currucoides
Size: 7" (18 cm)
Male: An overall sky blue bird with a darker blue head, back, wings and tail and white lower belly. Thin black bill.
Female: similar to male, but paler with a nearly gray head and chest and a whitish belly
Juvenile: similar to adult of the same sex
Nest: cavity, old woodpecker cavity, wooden nest box; female builds; 1-2 broods per year
Eggs: 4-6; pale blue without markings
Incubation: 13-14 days; female incubates
Fledging: 22-23 days; female and male feed young
Migration: complete, to southwestern states, Mexico
Food: insects, fruit
Compare: Larger than Bluethroat (pg. 241), which is gray only with blue only around the area of the throat. Look for male Mountain Bluebird's dark blue head, back and wings.
Stan’s Notes: Found in open mountainous country. Feeds mainly on insects, but will also eat fruit. Often hovers just before diving to the ground to grab an insect. Hovers at nest cavity entrance. Due to conservation of suitable nest sites (dead trees with cavities and man-made nest boxes), populations have increased over the past 30 years. Like other bluebirds, Mountain Bluebirds take well to nest boxes and tolerate close contact with humans. Female continues to sit on baby birds (brood) for up to six days after eggs hatch. Young will imprint on their first nest box or cavity, then choose a similar type of box or cavity throughout the rest of life.
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