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Mountain Bluebird
jmorlan

Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides)

This is a male. They are scarce winter visitors to our area but regular in small numbers in the foothills around the Central Valley from breeding grounds in the interior Mountain West. They tend to be grayer and less intensely blue in the winter. The male's sky-blue coloration is variable, created not by pigment but a structural color formed by refractive feather microstructures.
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Location
Fairfield, California, USA.
Date taken
16 January 2021
Scientific name
Sialia currucoides
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Deb Burhinus
What a lovely smokey blue colour! Really interesting re the feather structure, which is what gives it such a luminous subtle glow rather than a flat colour.
 
Kits
What a lovely portrait of this handsome chap, Joseph.
 
delia todd
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Such pretty birds these I think Joe..... and you've a gorgeous image of this one.

Many thanks for showing him to us my friend.
 

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Category
North America
Added by
jmorlan
Date added
View count
88
Comment count
6

Image metadata

Device
Canon Canon PowerShot SX70 HS
Aperture
ƒ/5.6
Focal length
136.4 mm
Exposure time
1/640
ISO
100
Filename
MountainBluebirdIMG_8005.jpg
File size
274.7 KB
Date taken
Sat, 16 January 2021 11:36 AM
Dimensions
800px x 1066px

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