Bluebird ^3.7.2

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MaleEastern Bluebirds are vivid, deep blue above and rusty or brick-red on the throat and breast. Blue in birds always depends on the light, and males often look plain gray-brown from a distance. Females are grayish above with bluish wings and tail, and a subdued orange-brown breast.

Eastern Bluebirds perch erect on wires, posts, and low branches in open country, scanning the ground for prey. They feed by dropping to the ground onto insects or, in fall and winter, by perching on fruiting trees to gulp down berries. Bluebirds commonly use nest boxes as well as old woodpecker holes.

Eastern Bluebirds live in meadows and openings surrounded by trees that offer suitable nest holes. With the proliferation of nest boxes and bluebird trails, bluebirds are now a common sight along roads, field edges, golf courses, and other open areas.

The bluebirds are a North American[1] group of medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the order of Passerines in the genus Sialia of the thrush family (Turdidae). Bluebirds are one of the few thrush genera in the Americas.

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. Within Sialia the mountain bluebird was sister to the eastern bluebird.[4]

Bluebirds are territorial and prefer open grassland with scattered trees. This is similar to the behavior of many species of woodpeckers. Bluebirds can typically produce between two and four broods during the spring and summer (March through August in the Northeastern United States). Males identify potential nest sites and try to attract prospective female mates to those nesting sites with special behaviors that include singing and flapping wings, and then placing some material in a nesting box or cavity. If the female accepts the male and the nesting site, she alone builds the nest and incubates the eggs.

Predators of young bluebirds in the nests can include snakes, cats, and raccoons. Bird species competing with bluebirds for nesting locations include the common starling, American crow, and house sparrow, which take over the nesting sites of bluebirds, killing young, smashing eggs, and probably killing adult bluebirds.[6]

Bluebirds are attracted to platform bird feeders, filled with grubs of the darkling beetle, sold by many online bird product wholesalers as mealworms. Bluebirds will also eat raisins soaked in water. In addition, in winter bluebirds use backyard heated birdbaths.

By the 1970s, bluebird numbers had declined by estimates ranging to 70% due to unsuccessful competition with house sparrows and starlings, both introduced species, for nesting cavities, coupled with a decline in habitat. In late 2005, Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology reported bluebird sightings across the southern U.S. as part of its yearly Backyard Bird Count, a strong indication of the bluebird's return to the region. This upsurge can be attributed largely to a movement of volunteers establishing and maintaining bluebird trails.

In traditional Iroquois cosmology, the call of the bluebird is believed to ward off the icy power of Sawiskera, also referred to as Flint, the spirit of the winter. Its call caused Sawiskera to flee in fear and the ice to recede.[8]

"(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" was composed in 1941 by Walter Kent to lyrics by Nat Burton looking forward to a time when World War II would be over. Burton was unaware that the bluebird was not indigenous to England. Vera Lynn popularised the song with her performances to the troops.

The titular bluebird of the song "Birds", from the 2013 album Government Plates by the Sacramento-based experimental hip hop group Death Grips, is thought to be referencing Charles Bukowski's poem "Bluebird", wherein bluebirds represent vulnerability that Bukowski felt as a result of child abuse from his father.[10]

"Bluebird" is the title of Miranda Lambert's Country chart-topping late 2019 single from her album Wildcard . The song was co-written by Lambert who has said the song was a reference to the hope and optimism associated with bluebirds. The accompanying video for the song features a mountain bluebird.

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Others come into the shop to purchase mealworms and announce that their bluebirds have just started their third nesting. As they gush about the heavenly blue color, and the way the parents feed the mealworms to their babies, I do my best to share their joy.

There are definite lifestyle differences between the two species. Male bluebirds are quite territorial. They work hard at attracting a mate and staking their claim on a nest box. While they may tolerate other species nesting nearby, they don't generally like to be too close to other bluebirds.

Purple martins, by contrast, are a rowdy colonial bunch. They may fight over a gourd or a mate, but much of their time is spent roosting together, flying together, clicking, chirping and singing together.

It is easier, I suspect, to be a bluebird landlord than a martin landlord. Bluebirds are perfectly content to nest in a box that is mounted on a pole that is five to six feet high. Bluebirds do much of their foraging on the ground, searching for mole crickets, grasshoppers, beetles and worms.

While purple martins also eat bugs and like to be close to human habitations, they do their feeding on the wing, zipping about in pursuit of dragonflies, bees, butterflies, wasps and the occasional mosquito. Martins prefer a house that is mounted 10 to 15 feet above the ground in an open area with wide-open flight paths.

The first purple martin scouts (generally adult males) arrive in late January and February. These birds do a lot of dawn singing, hoping to entice more birds (preferably females) to join them in the colony. It can take one to two months for the birds to settle into their new home and get down to the business of raising families. The process takes close to nine weeks and rarely do the birds raise more than one brood in a season.

The first time I checked on my colony I found five nests with eggs and one nest that already had five babies. Three weeks later, those hatchlings looked almost ready to fledge. All of the other eggs had hatched. Gourd 4 had six young but feathered babies. Gourd 3 had six "pinkies" (recently hatched birds with nary a feather). I was pleased to discover that Compartment A, previously empty, now held a nest with four eggs.

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