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The eastern bluebird was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacilla sialis. [5] The type location is South Carolina. [ 6 ]
This is a list of birds species recorded in the archipelago of Cuba, which consists of the main island of Cuba and over 1000 smaller cays and islands. The confirmed avifauna of Cuba included a total of 407 species as of May 2023 according to the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Cuba . [ 1 ]
Common name Binomial name + authority IOC sequence Grandala: Grandala coelicolor Hodgson, 1843: 1 Mountain bluebird: Sialia currucoides (Bechstein, 1798) 2 Western bluebird: Sialia mexicana Swainson, 1832: 3 Eastern bluebird: Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) 4 Finsch's rufous thrush: Stizorhina finschi (Sharpe, 1870) 5 Fraser's rufous thrush
The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [4] Of the five inhabited territories of the United States, American Samoa and Puerto Rico are the only ones without territorial birds.
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) ... Eastern bluebird; Eastern bluebonnet; Eastern Bonelli's warbler;
The genus Sialia was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1827 with the eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) as the type species. [2] [3] A molecular phylogenetic study using mitochondrial sequences published in 2005 found that Sialia, Myadestes (solitaires) and Neocossyphus (African ant-thrushes) formed a basal clade in the family Turdidae.
In 2016 the list of birds of the world maintained by Frank Gill and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithologists' Union included 448 species for which Linnaeus's description in the 10th edition is cited as the authority. Of these species, 101 have been retained in their original genus and 347 have been moved to a different genus.
Western bluebird Varied thrush. Order: Passeriformes Family: Turdidae. The thrushes are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World. They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium-sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. Many have attractive songs. Eastern bluebird, Sialia ...