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  2. It's nesting season for Eastern Bluebirds and good time to ...

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    Volunteers at Maybury State Park keep an eye on bluebird nesting boxes, watching for predators, counting eggs and fledglings.

  3. Important bluebird basics: When sightings increase in New ...

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    The key for a bluebird nest box is to have the hole be exactly 1.5 inches in diameter. Too large of a hole invites starlings and makes it easier for squirrels and other larger rodents to get in.

  4. Cliff swallows and bluebirds face challenges during nesting ...

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    Bluebirds have two or three nestings per year so do not give up trying to attract them. Keep monitoring your bluebird nest boxes and make sure that they aren’t occupied by house sparrows.

  5. Western bluebird - Wikipedia

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    Nestlings remain in a nest about 19 to 22 days before fledging. In a good year, the parents can rear two broods, with four to six eggs per clutch. According to genetic studies, 45% of western bluebirds' nests carried young that were not offspring of the male partner. In addition, they help their parents raise a new brood after their own nest fails.

  6. Bluebird - Wikipedia

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    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. Bluebirds lay an average of 4 to 6 eggs per clutch. They will usually brood two or three times in a year.

  7. Eastern bluebird - Wikipedia

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    The eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) is a small North American migratory thrush found in open woodlands, farmlands, and orchards. The bright-blue breeding plumage of the male, easily observed on a wire or open perch, makes this species a favorite of birders.

  8. Mountain bluebird - Wikipedia

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    Mountain Bluebird is a U.S.-Canada Stewardship species, and is not on the 2014 State of the Birds Watch List. These bluebirds benefited from the westward spread of logging and grazing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the clearing of forest created open habitat for foraging.

  9. Dealing with pests in your yard: Starlings, sparrows, and ...

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    Speaking of bluebirds, it is not too late to have a pair of bluebirds start a nesting right now. If you have been ignoring your bluebird nesting boxes for the last several weeks, go out there to ...