It’s not hard to see why a mountain bluebird is among the West’s most sought-after birds. Learn what the birds eat and what they sound like.

Yes, I love finding something neat and interesting on any of my Times News walks or hikes, but seeing a new bird for the year ...

Bird lovers know Colorado is the home of the blues — bluebirds, that is. Found all across the state, Mountain bluebirds are some of the first migrants to return every spring. Brilliant flashes ...

Startup ski mountain Bluebird Backcountry announced in July that it won’t operate this winter after three seasons running a lift-less resort on a ranch near Steamboat Springs.

A mountain bluebird flies at Saltese Flats on Saturday in this photo by Jerry Rolwes. Web extra: Submit your own outdoors-related photographs for a chance to be published in our weekly print edition.

Here is a rundown of the 50 official state birds in the U.S., from Alabama to Wyoming, as well as Washington D.C.

Naturally is a column written by a rotating cast of experts at the NJ Audubon. Within the past two months, I’ve had two ...

On a recent Sunday morning, a group of 10 bird-watchers leisurely made their way up Yellow Fork Canyon near Herriman in ...

I'd taken a photo of a mountain bluebird — either a juvenile or a female, judging by the dull colors — at Johnston Ridge earlier this year (three days before the Coldwater Creek-area landslide ...

Western bluebirds produce one to three broods per year, and mountain bluebirds tend to have just one or two.) Birds' gut bacteria might also play a role in the immune response, Knutie adds.

Montana, he said, is in a unique position of having all three bluebird species - western bluebirds, eastern bluebirds and mountain bluebirds.