Bluebirds
Eastern Bluebird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Turdidae Genus: Sialia
Species
Sialia sialis Sialia mexicana Sialia currucoides

The bluebirds are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Sialia of the thrush family Turdidae.

These are one of the relatively few thrush groups to be restricted to the New World. As the name implies, these are attractive birds with blue, or blue and red, plumage.

Species:

• Eastern Bluebird, Sialia sialis
• Western Bluebird, Sialia mexicana
• Mountain Bluebird, Sialia currucoides

Mountain Bluebird

The two species of Fairy-bluebird found in Southeast Asia and the Philippines, genus Irena are not closely related to the American species.

There is a Hydrangea variety called the Bluebird .

Bluebird was also the name of a series of cars and boats that Donald Campbell used to set both water and land speed records.