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Backyard Bluebird House 10045

Backyard Bluebird House
(12-1/2"h x 6"w x 8-1/2"d)

The Backyard Bluebird House has a 4x4" floor and is perfect for most common backyard birds including the beautiful bluebird.

This Bluebird House has a 1½" hole that is protected by a slate guard to keep squirrels away.

North American Bluebird Society Approved

$28.99

There are three species of Bluebirds. The Eastern Bluebird, The Western Bluebird and The Mountain Bluebird.

The Eastern Bluebirds breed in every state east of the Rocky Mountains. The Eastern Bluebirds head, back, wings, and tail are bright blue. His throat, breast and sides are rusty and the belly is white.

The Western Bluebird breeds in the western states from Canada to Mexico and east to Colorado. The Western Bluebirds head, back, wings, throat and tail are bright blue. His breast and sides are rusty and the belly is white.

The Mountain Bluebird likes high elevations and

breeds in the Northwest east to the Dakotas and north into Alaska. The Male Mountain Bluebird is entirely blue except for his white belly. The female Mountain Bluebird is mostly gray with just a little blue showing on her wings and tail.

Bluebirds are mostly insectivores eating insects like grasshoppers, cutworms and flying insects. They also eat berries in the fall and wintertime.

Bluebirds are very enjoyable to watch and listen to. During the spring courtship it is so fun to watch the male bluebird devoting all his energy luring a female with his song. He will sing and sing while the female sits passively by enjoying his passionate effort.

The female bluebird builds her nest out of dry grass and other plant material around 3 inches deep. The bluebirds clear blue eggs will hatch in 2 weeks and the baby bluebirds will be big enough to leave the nest in 15-20 days. Bluebird pairs will raise 2 or 3 broods of young each season.

The bluebird’s main competitors are the house sparrow and the starling. Sparrows will break the bluebird’s eggs or will peck baby bluebird’s to death. The adult bluebirds are often unable to defend themselves or their young. Starlings are even worse and will drive all the bluebirds out of an area occupying every available nesting cavity unless man intervenes.

To assist the bluebird we need to provide suitable habitats, winter roosts and keep a good food supply available for them using bluebird feeders.

Free Bluebird Education Packet This Free Printable file contains coloring pages, puzzles and informative pages designed for grades 1-5.