A pair of nesting eastern bluebirds has raised three broods in our bluebird box since March, and the female just laid another clutch of eggs that will hatch by mid-July. Beginning in February, the ...

Eastern bluebirds are not really blue — it's the way light waves interact with their feathers. But they are a part of Michigan's natural heritage and now that it's nesting season, they can be spotted ...

As I write this column I am feeling quite under the weather. The flu has come to town and it has me in its grip. I haven’t left the house in days and all I want to do is sleep. That being said, I am ...

You might imagine that a scientific community that can splice genes, clone life and put machines on the Martian surface would know all about the life of our everyday bird species. You would be wrong.

ST. LOUIS — On March 30, 1927, the eastern bluebird was officially designated the Missouri state bird by an act of the Missouri Legislature because it was "common in Missouri" and "a symbol of ...

ATHENS, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – North America is the only place on Earth to find bluebirds, which belong to the thrush family, and there are only three species. In the eastern half of the US, we have the ...

Courtesy photo Pennsylvania Game Commission State Game Wardens Mike College and Salvadore Zaffuto and State Game Warden Cadets Andrew Kopec and Angus Beers recently conducted an Eastern Bluebird ...

In the spring, long before the leaves emerge, eastern bluebirds (like this male) will scour the fields and forest edges for suitable places to raise a family. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON As I ...

A pair of eastern bluebirds. Source: Claudine Lamothe, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. Birdsong is often thought of as a male trait, but new research is changing that idea.

The bleak wintry landscape of hay-colored hills and bare branches is suddenly interrupted by flashes of deep blue, as though parts of a clear sky had come down, alive, to do somersaults near the ...