| Eastern bluebirds are socially monogamous passerines that breed throughout eastern North America. |
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| Bermuda's native bluebirds can be seen in the many bluebird boxes lining the golf courses. |
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| There are anecdotal reports of bluebirds and House Wrens taking over the nests of Ash-throated Flycatchers. |
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| I discovered that the chickadees had fledged from the bluebird box and bluebirds had started a nest with one egg already laid. |
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| Woodpeckers, screech owls, chickadees, nuthatches, bluebirds, tree swallows and some flycatchers need them. |
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| House sparrows and starlings seem to not care for the design of the house but tree swallows, bluebirds, chickadees and wrens really like it. |
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| I saw mockingbirds and bluebirds on my slow drive back, but grosbeaks, tanagers, kingbirds, and buntings are apparently not back yet. |
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| I did see other signs of spring including listening to eastern meadowlarks and eastern bluebirds. |
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| It seems once blacksnakes learn its easier to get baby birds, be it chickens or bluebirds, they don't try for mice any longer. |
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| A pair of bluebirds and a phoebe dallied across the street, and a hummingbird zipped across the western sky. |
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| The air is full of the smell of honeysuckle, the buzzing of bees, the chirruping of bluebirds, and the sizzling of meat. |
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| Unfortunately, Sewing Mistress made me embroider them, so they look funny, for who ever saw sturdy slippers with bluebirds and flowers on them? |
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| As we mentioned earlier, bluebirds prefer open rural areas with scattered trees and sparse ground cover. |
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| Flickers and bluebirds seek them out for nesting cavities and red squirrels eagerly cache the high-energy pine cones. |
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| Since bluebirds are cavity nesters, you may be able to entice a pair of bluebirds to raise a family in your yard by providing them with a bluebird box. |
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| The area is home to a variety of other birds, including nesting bald eagles, hawks, owls, bluebirds and several other songbirds, wild turkeys, herons, and waterfowl. |
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| The pair compared data from studies covering 18 different species, including dwarf mongooses, meerkats, Florida scrub jays, western bluebirds, and Australian magpies. |
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| Other insect-eating birds include bluebirds, martins and wrens. |
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| In the treeless badlands, bluebirds nest in cracks and crevices of steep eroding hillsides. |
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| I know it may shock you to know I haven't led a blameless life, that my past is not a blissful stroll in the park on a sunny day with bluebirds winging in a cloudless sky. |
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| Forestry practices that remove dead trees and snags reduce the available nesting cavities for bluebirds. |
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| Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins. |
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| As a result of bluebird banding programs, we now know that some bluebirds nest when they are one year old. |
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| Domestic cats and raccoons are formidable predators of young and incubating female bluebirds. Deer mice and chipmunks can also be problems. |
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| Among common birds are California jays and thrashers, juncos, mountain bluebirds, and hermit thrushes. |
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| Leafbirds proper are in the genus Choropsis, ioras are in the genus Aegithina, and fairy bluebirds in the genus Irena. |
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| Once installed, bluebirds are well able to defend boxes that are properly designed and placed to their liking. |
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| I think the robins and bluebirds will appreciate the feast they offer. |
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| Some of those species include bluebirds, robins, titmice, chickadees, nuthatches, wrens, tree and barn swallows, purple martins, owls, flycatchers, and woodpeckers. |
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| If you haven't attracted bluebirds or tree swallows by late spring, close your box up or take it down, but do not let English sparrows, vicious predators, take over any box. |
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| I pulled over at Schaar's Bluff, turned off my car and just sat and listened, beyond the bluebirds and meadowlarks you could hear tree sparrows and red-winged blackbirds. |
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| Redbirds, bluebirds, robins, bobolinks, scarlet tanagers, Kentucky warblers, and orchard orioles strut and sing like the cast of a turn-of-the-century revue. |
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| These results suggest that male western bluebirds do not make significant adjustments in their share of provisioning when they have evidence of partial paternity loss. |
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| A parasitic blowfly Apaulina stalia takes its toll of bluebirds in some areas, although it is not thought to reduce population size. |
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| The behaviors that benefit your average female wasp are different from those that benefit the average male wasp, and the same holds for bluebirds or pipefish. |
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| In the daring era of the early aviators, Wilbur and Orville Wright were ravens in a sky full of bluebirds. |
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| Also, Europeans brought with them intruders-starlings and House Sparrows-which had little difficulty in evicting the bluebirds from the few remaining nest sites. |
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| Mallards, gadwalls, teals, pintails, shovelers, snow geese, wood ducks, bluebirds and herons flock to these ponds and uplands to breed. |
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| Today, humans still compete for habitat with bluebirds. |
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| These box designs are proven to attract bluebirds and other native species, such as tree swallows and house wrens. |
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| Back then, it was still widely supposed that every girl's dream was to marry a handsome prince and live happily ever after in a Tyrolean castle attended upon by mice and dressed each morning by bluebirds. |
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| If the eggs or young of any brood are destroyed by predators, the bluebirds will avoid the nesting site for the rest of the season and may move as much as 200 km to establish a new nest site. |
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| They are open-cup nesters and granivores, so do not compete with bluebirds for nest sites. |
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| I stand on stage with my guitar, and fiddle and sing songs about window washers, bluebirds, ex-slaves, and the cycles of life. |
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| To successfully fledge young bluebirds, you mustn't hesitate to eradicate house sparrows. |
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| Of course, the skill required by male weaverbirds to produce a serviceable and acceptable nest is certainly greater than that required by female bluebirds. |
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| Birds that feed on hackberries include cedar waxwings, mockingbirds, American robins, bluebirds, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, northern flickers and quail. |
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| But because the game is not an all-ticket affair just how many Bluebirds fans will be in attendance is open to debate. |
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| Bluebirds are early nesters, so right now is the time to get your box in place. |
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| Mountain Bluebirds can be found in alpine parklands in the Cascades, the Blue Mountains, and the northeast corner of Washington. |
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| Bluebirds may also choose to nest in farmyards, feed lots and other areas where humans and cattle are found together. |
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| Wood's father George was Cardiff's goalkeeping coach until he and the Bluebirds parted company earlier this season. |
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| But the Bluebirds will have to cope without Hungarian centrehalf Gabor Gyepes, whose appeal against a dismissal in the same game was turned down. |
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| A mix-up dealing with Chris Allen's punt allowed Bluebirds striker Ashan Holgate to net a beautiful half-volley from 20 yards. |
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| Having waited 51 years to get to back to this level, the Bluebirds look all set for a swallow dive back to the second-tier. |
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| Bluebirds boss Mackay tried to play a straight bat to the most recent bout of speculation concerning his position. |
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| Having waited 51 years to get to back to this level, the Bluebirds are all set for a swallow dive back to the second tier. |
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| Interspecific competition influences fitness benefits of assortative mating for territorial aggression in Eastern Bluebirds. |
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| Eastern Bluebirds are sexually dichromatic songbirds that, on average, lay 4-5 egg clutches in Alabama. |
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| Taylor has denied it was a rush job, but admitted he and his board had to move fast to thwart the Bluebirds. |
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| But it would be a major shock if the Bluebirds boss upped sticks to The Hawthorns and it's thought he has already given assurances to City that he is going nowhere. |
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| Robinson's second-half strike earned the Bluebirds a 2-1 win against high-fliers Sheffield United on Saturday and it was enough to have him roaring defiance. |
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| The young Bluebirds defeated 10-man Newport County 5-3 in a penalty shootout after the teams drew 1-1 after 90 minutes plus extra time at Jenner Park, Barry. |
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| The Bluebirds beat Wolves 3-1 but 40 miles up the M6, Birmingham beat Port Vale to deny Cardiff their first ever piece of Football League silverware on goal average. |
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| Fifty of the smaller tubes were used for nesting in 2009, 49 by Eastern Bluebirds, Tree Swallows, or House Wrens with one nest unidentified to species. |
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| This time Malky Mackay's men are still in prime position to make it to the Premier League, but there is an argument for saying Bluebirds bums have never been squeakier. |
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| This afternoon's programme features the Peruna Jazzmen from Denmark, the South Side Jazz Serenaders from Switzerland and the Swingin' Bluebirds from Germany. |
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