Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)
Description: Eastern Bluebirds are only about seven inches long. They have a bright blue head, back, rump, and tail. Their throat and breast is a rusty, red-brown color and their belly is a shade of faint gray. The birds have black eyes and a small black beak.
Habitat: Eastern Bluebirds inhabit groves, forest edges, farms, and open country. They can be found throughout eastern North America but also in Mexico and the southwestern United States. The birds migrate to the southern states and parts of Mexico during the cold winter months.
Diet: Eastern Bluebirds tend to eat beetles, spiders, caterpillars, and grasshoppers. In the fall, they may eat berries or other small fruits.
Behaviors:
Miscellaneous:
Habitat: Eastern Bluebirds inhabit groves, forest edges, farms, and open country. They can be found throughout eastern North America but also in Mexico and the southwestern United States. The birds migrate to the southern states and parts of Mexico during the cold winter months.
Diet: Eastern Bluebirds tend to eat beetles, spiders, caterpillars, and grasshoppers. In the fall, they may eat berries or other small fruits.
Behaviors:
- Eastern Bluebird males constantly seek to impress the females. They court the females by pretty love songs, chasing away rivals from their habitat, and finding insects to eat.
- The male Eastern Bluebird displays at his nest cavity, bringing nest material to the hole. He enters and leaves, and waves his wings while perched above it.
- The young Eastern Bluebirds leave the nest in a mere three weeks.
- Eastern Bluebirds tend to perch on wires, posts, and low branches, scanning the ground for prey.
Miscellaneous:
- The oldest recorded Eastern Bluebird was 10 years 5 months old.
- They have occasionally been seen eating larger animals such as salamanders, snakes, and lizards.
- Eastern Bluebirds typically have more than one successful brood per year.